Spring Dashboard update bugs out

"It looks like consoles just turned into unreliable PCs." Chilling words for those naive souls who thought background downloading came without a Mephistophelian price. Xbox 360 owners across the web report various problems with the Spring Dashboard Update ranging from choppy, unwatchable video clips to negative effects on certain games. XboxFanBoy has posted a list of complaints collected from the various game forums.

[bernie]

Downloaded the Xbox360 update and the Oblivion update and everything's fine. All the new features work great!

[Majunior]

i got the update and then dl the halo 3 trailer to show a friend it was skippin like a ba$tard!!! But besides that no other problems...havnt played oblivion in awhile maybe ill check it out to c if it takes longer to load...M$ another update plz!

[DrunKao]

I'm really happy with the spring update but I'm having one problem and it's with videos. Ever since I updated, whenever I watch any of the videos it skips. Not really bad but it's still noticeable and annoying. I don't think people should bash MS for it because they've done such a really great job with this update. I guess it's inevitable that there will be some problems. I do have faith that Microsoft will fix them as soon as possible. I've had my Xbox 360 since midnight November 22nd and this is basicly the only problem I've had with it. I love my Xbox 360 and Microsoft for what they have done and are doing with it. Does anyone know if the onscreen keyboard will ever have an option for qwerty layout?

[THELANDSOFSAND]

this is weird- i have had no problems and haven't heard about anyone else having any apart from in this article... my games have been running and loading fine and oblivion is working great. similarly i have no crashing or flickering on my video. could these just be unrelated coincidences? it seems odd only some people would have these bugs.

[FamoAmo]

I have had no problems. I actually think my 360 is running better since the update. I also wanted to comment about the overheating.-I have had my 360 since launch and have had no problems. A friend of mine moved his 360 into his entertainment center shelf and closed the door and like 5 minutes later the red lights were flashing and he quick opened the door and thank god nothing happend but something would have if he didn't open the door. So pretty much KEEP YOU 360 IN A OPEN SPOT WHERE IT CAN GENERATE AIR EASILY. IF YOU DO THAT IT WON'T OVERHEAT!!

[JPomper]

Aside from having to edit that first quote the majority of the article is composed of horribly written message board posts.

I haven't experienced once problem and am quite pleased with the update.

[USMChardcharger]

is this more rumors by PS fans to make the 360 look like it is broke? (for example: the over heating rumor...i have yet to talk with anyone who owns a 360, face to face, say they have had overheating problems.) you can not really know if someone posting in forums actually owns a 360.

no problems from me either.

[THELANDSOFSAND]

yes, i agree about the overheating. it is way more uncommon than some would have you believe. if they had heating issues, believe me, my 360 would be overheating!

[RealDoubleJ]

there''s a UK poster in the Xbox forums who has a gamerscore of nearly 12000 points and he claims his 360 is right next to his radiator and has never had a heating problem. I'm not saying all 360's are like this. Also, it must be down to something the user themselves are doing because there are posters on the forums who are on their 4th or 5th 360. It's handy MS doesn't charge for replacements.

[Jay da 2KBalla]

USM I was thinking the same thing.

[Droidbro]

semper

[Schmitty07]

Mine is fine.

[kidvideo]

I agree with the others, I don't know of anyone that owns a 360 that has complained of the problem of over heating. Including a friend who left his on over the weekend while he was gone for over 70 hours. I'm sure as with anything there could be a few defects. Put please give it a rest. The 360 rocks. PS The only glitch since the Springupdate was while trying to download RumbleRose it stoppped twice. Could hae been my own wireless connection. Other than that minor issue, a OK!

[jeagles51]

I just had to send back my 360 for the third time. I keep it out in the open, i dont move it when its on or keep it on for 70 hours straight. Its just the luck of the draw, but they did give me a free copy of any microsoft title so whatever, but this system is truly the best i have ever played, even with the problems.

[shotty]

Mine is a launch system and it works fine. Sometimes it on for half a day right beside my HDTV and no overheating. Also oblivion runs smoother now, not as much loads.

[LK]

my 360 has no problem either. its running great and alot smoother and about overheating problem not my 360, not once.

[360theAssasinsCreed]

I also have had mine at launch and working flawlessly, unfortunately i don't have internet connection thus no xbox live so i have none of the updates and mine still works perfect, reason being i don't have internet and live is i have a huge college loan debt (if anyone cares LOL) but i was wanting to know if i called MS could i have the updates sent to me on a dvd or i will have to wait until i can get onto live at some point in the future. Anyways keep up the good work MS love the 360 just keep the killer games coming.

[Daewoodrow]

You can copy the updates to a cd-r off the website, too.

[Daewoodrow]

This is Joystiq. Joystiq is run by PS fanboys. They always do this, pay no attention to this article whatsoever.
My xbox is running better than ok. And a software update will not cause a hardware failure, for all the "OMG I GOT THREE RED LIGHTS" people.

[shotty]

I heard they are going to bundle the update on all the new games.

[slugg]

If there is a problem, M$ will fix it. They have proven over and over that they will do what it takes. Sony, on the other hand, denies all problems with their systems and screws their customers over. Anyone remember the bad-drive issue with PS2's? Customers had to sue them in a class-action lawsuit, which Sony lost, (Those of us who signed up for the class-action got a free game-- should have been a refund for the crap system we bought) and they still refused to admit there was a problem. Not to mention their whole BS about removing rumble from the P$3-- they HAD to, as they lost another lawsuit and appeal because their rumble tech was stolen. (To be fair, M$ and Nintendo "stole" this same rumble tech, but settled with Immersion Technologies, unlike $ony, who will just never admit they are wrong...)

[Dusk]

I've not had a single problem. Everthing actually seems to run smoother. The only exception is that when I eject a game disc it seems to take an extra second or two to go back to dashboard. I could also be imagining things, since everthing else is great.

[joemutt]

Works great! No Bugs!

Must be just a rumor, between my friends and I we have 6 360's, never once has any of them crashed, stalled, overheated, anything like that so we are all happy!

[Majunior]

theres no way out of all ur guys systems none of them crashed or froze..give me a break..i love my 360 my gs says it all but come on usin guide durin online gamin or loadin can just crash ur $hit..

[360theAssasinsCreed]

thanks for the tips for the cd-r i will have to look into that (daewoodrow) and i also heard about them bundling the updates on new games coming out (shotty) i hope they do it might be another year before i can think of getting on live. Thanks again

[FamoAmo]

How do you get it to boot up to the dashboard instead of the game? I tried to find it but couldn't!!

[Ugly American]

Go all the way to the right to system settings, then down to console settings, and it is under startup.

[Marriot VP]

with mine, everything's faster and better organized. I did have that one light at the end of the halo 3 trailer though. You just got unlucky.

[FamoAmo]

Thanks Ugly American!

[f1r3waII K1LL3r]

it aint nothing wrong if anything my sytem is going quicker and as for my oblivion its also loading quicker, I love this update so whatever and if it is somehow a problem microsoft will come to the rescue

[Fuzz McDeath]

Can we please stop propagating this nonsense? Just becasue one blog posts it doenst' mean you guys have to. Or at least do some checking first. Unlike the defective 360 issue (for which their was some merit, albeit blown out of proportion), I don't think there is any substantial evidence of this at all yet.

A quick search of the XBOX forums only turned up 2 threads on this issue - and only a few (10 tops) posts of people actually saying that an issue occured after the update. And to even assume any of those 10 instances were the result of the update is bad science. Just because the sun comes up when I wake in the morning doens't prove that I am GOD.

[FamoAmo]

No one has a problem with the update. Everyone is discussing other things as we'll!! And #22 is BS!! Notice how he said at 90day.. sure!! lol

[dantesparda]

Mine's started acting up close to the end of the 90-days. It started freezing up more and more, to the point that it would freeze up almost every single time I used it. And I never moved it from where it was since day one, and I got it on day one.

[Majunior]

i aint know ps3 fan boy and yes i dl a video after update and it was skippy...not sayin its due to the update but u never know...and by the way just cuz some bad news comes out for the 360 dont immediately label it as ps3 fanboys startin up..unless u want $hitty updates in the future..dont lie ms needs to know of problems..although this update may not have any.

[Daewoodrow]

But Joystiq have always been PS fanboys. Every day there's a new article about something microsoft do wrong.
Granted, this is a branch from Joytiq to a 360 site, but i'll believe they've changed when I see it. And so far they seem to be pulling the fanboy s**t again.

[MissAubrey]

its cool no probs.

[96impala]

I read 10.1's post and really have a hard time believing that you can get it on a cdr and put it to the 360 seeing as how you can't even do that with burned music, you can only do it through store bought cd's, so how is putting the update on a cdr going to work, please explain???????

[Daewoodrow]

You can indeed play music on a cd-r too. It was one of the main advertised features.
As for the update, I checked it out, and now i'm starting to wonder if you can download the software updates off the website. So far I can only find backwards compatability updates.
So yes, you can put updates on a cd-r, but i'm not sure if you can do anything but backwards compatability yet.

[96impala]

can anyone tell me if its possible to get these updates on a disc provided by MS or, is it xbox live only???

[omansteveo]

Got to the support part of M$ site they should the file for download. you just say and burn to a disc then pop in your system that simple pretty coo huh?

[nawtbird]

I have fell asleep downloading a demo and woke up in the mourning with it still running. This has happened 3 or 4 times. It will run for 8 hours or so and never has overheated. I have played games for hours without any problems.

I have not had any problems with the dashboard update either....

[Majunior]

ok this article was about the new update and possible bugs with it!!!Not anywhere does it mention overheating! plz we dont need ur stories of "My 360 doesnt overheat" We know! Keep to the article!

[Madmax1281980]

ps3lord where did u lean english coz thats what i call pathetic (notice how i spelled it) go and get some english lessons b4 u post and buy a 360 or even play 1 b4 u make any commens about it i still have to meet or even read about any 360s burning houses down. any 1 here heard of any?

[96impala]

25.1 -
Daewoodrow - 4 Hours ago
You can indeed play music on a cd-r too. It was one of the main advertised features.

No disrespect here but yeah i know you can play cdr's but im saying that you cant take music from the cdr and use it to make music for your custom soundtrack that you cannot do you can only use store bought cd's. Yes you can play cd's but the custom soundtrack for ingame playback will not take cdr's.

[Daewoodrow]

I'm a little confused, you mean copying off a cd-r? Because this is true, but the reason they wont let you copy music off a cd-r onto the HDD is to stop illegal music getting on the hdd. You can't copy music from windows media connect either, but you can make playlists on the computer and access them through win media connect, again for illegal music sharing.
But the updates can be taken from a dd-r, but again I can't find software updates, only backward compatability.
It's right here,
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/g...

I really searched the site and can't find the software updates to copy to a disk like this one. If anyone did see it, please post a link.

[96impala]

Hey guys sorry for all the confusion, It was to my understanding that you cannot copy cdr music to the hard drive and use it as ingame playback. However, i was told that back in november and i never tried to do it, i mean i have boooooat loads of cdr music, but as it turns out, i was saying that it couldnt be done without even trying, well since my last post i decided to try it and low and behold it does work. I was able to rip music from my cdr to my hard drive for ingame playback.

I should have known better because if i can rip music to my harddrive of the pc and back to my cdr's i do it all the time, then i can rip those same files to the harddrive of the 360 after all its all windows right, well i dispelled my own myth, Yes i can indeed rip my burn tracks to the harddrive of my xbox 360. Im sooooo excited. Thank you all for your input.

[Daewoodrow]

I'm glad you found it works, I hadn't even tried it myself, I always assumed it didn't work, since I could never copy music off the computer to the hdd through WMC.
So, I owe you that too!

[96impala]

If only i can get this update on a cdr.....