It's terribly slow. More style than substance like all the dashboard updates. They make finding content more cumbersome and it's never very intuitive to use.
You might want to get your xbox checked. I just downloaded the update and it is incredibly more faster. The whole dashboard feels smoother, especially when you bring up the guide in the game.
try signing into the xbox.com website with your credentials. see if you can send messages or see friends online and then try again on your console. worked for me.
seeing as this was posted 19 hours ago it is clear that the issue was overload on their servers. Trying to feed millions of users the new dash update was a bit of a strain.
ast forward to today and things are nice andd smooth. be fair, if you are in an area that is till experiencing issues then please be patient. 50+ million is allot to handle in a 24hr period.
i got up at 5:30 am and updated my 360 in only a few minutes and things were good to go as opposed to last night when I updated the kids 360. Even the zune marketplace wasnt working right then but this morning it was a ok.
same thing happened to me, i just got on LIVE though. had to sign-in to xbox.com with my credentials and then that worked and was able to send messages via the website so i turned on my xbox and it connected. magic
After the update, my 360 wouldn't connect to live. I opted for the common sense approach and power failed it so it would reset itself. Works just fine now.
You are 100% correct. It's a reasonable, understandable, truth that is based off common sense. But somehow it doesn't become a huge media spectacle for one console. When it comes to the other though...that's a whole 'nother story.
True what I hate about gaming journalism is how bias the authors can be. Many times I want to read articles that provide good information. But sadly most of what the press produces are doom articles and sales predictions.
Certainly not a fanboy, yet I had tons of problems yesterday. I kept getting signed out of XBL after the update. Then once I couldn't sign in at all after restarting my console. I waited about 45 minutes tried again and it worked.
Do you really thing that people having issues haven't visited the Xbox.com Status page that their Xbox tells them too (when it can't connect).
That page was literally still open from last night, but everything worked itself out now.
Also; To Complainers; please note not all the features have been implemented yet, there's a significant amount being added next week. (we don't even had the Media tab yet)
So all the premium themes we purchased are now pretty much worthless, with this gray area, that you can't change taking up half the screen. They should stop offering themes for purchase if they are going to render half of it non-viewable and give partial refunds for all the themes we have purchased. I would not have bought these if I couldn't see them.
As most know there was a service alert that stated people would be having issues getting onto LIVE during this update. As was what happened to the majority of people. Myself included.
Had to reset my Xbox a few times and do a couple of test internet connection but all worked out in the long run.
I am looking forward to the media area getting updated but wondering how much of that I will have access to? I got the Today news but am wanting back the other news channels they had before which I don't see on the list of coming soon. Today show really has crappy news reporting.
I am not sure why they don't drop the feature box down more into the grey area so that you can see the theme better? Also you would think they could have a reduced setting where you could minimize function to reduce size?
Hoping the next dashboard has an application that lets me drop and place windows into areas to my choosing. Commercially that would be difficult for them but they could leave a little non-controlled area for their small ad space as needed.
When I update my daughters Xbox and let her mess with it... then I will learn just how intuitive and easy to locate items really is. Kids let you know without the worry of them always wanting things the way it was.
Finally got it working after 5 tries...
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I couldn't get online. Tried 10 minutes later. Got online. Then I got an error before the update. Now I can't get online. I want to watch Netflix!
Recover your gamertag, and accept new T.O.S. problem solved.
been adding the apps, watched espn, have had no issue with sinc downloading it.