Ban Wave

[ROBINGILL]

I am still not banned and I am glad I have an unmodded xbox, i still I think my fate is set in stone. I just hope I can salvage something/anything from my HDD.

[bor4748]

nobody awnsered my question im going to get a new 360 tommorrow can i recover my account to my new 360 without getting banned

[technoe]

Your account is generally unaffected by having your console banned. To someone who asked about the update, you must take the update to be signed in on Xbox live! And it seems that some bans may be temporary, as I've seen some posts elsewhere, that players have been able to log back into xbl after a day or two.

[Backslash]

Your account is generally unaffected by having your console banned. To someone who asked about the update, you must take the update to be signed in on Xbox live! And it seems that some bans may be temporary, as I've seen some posts elsewhere, that players have been able to log back into xbl after a day or two.

ban of the gamertag or the console, i dont want to waste 200$ if I will be unbanned?

[c0afanh]

i live in washington nc. not too many people around her knows anything about modding consoles. most of them are rich and just buy the games again if they break lol. i hope i don't get banned.

This is what I found. Read the following information carefully. The information below is not from me.

Just to clear up a few points...

The NAND does not store any game information, and has nothing to do with being flagged for a ban.

The way Microsoft flags you for a ban is by observing the challenge/response time of whatever game you are playing.

(Challenge/Response is this: Microsoft challenges (sends a question to) the Xbox's drive for certain information.

The Xbox then responds (Response) to the request with the answer to the question.
The time it takes for this to happen, as well as the information given is how Microsoft tells a backup from a retail copy.

One of iXtreme's main functions is to manipulate this data to look legitimate, but if your game is not properly stealthed, disc has burn errors(etc), iXtreme cannot do anything to mask it.
Microsoft then flags your console for further review.

Obviously disks with burn errors will not help either.

Unplugging the network cable or disconnecting from XBL will not 100% protect you from the ban hammer!

It was discovered and confirmed well over a year ago that, while it performs a reduced number of checks (PFI, DMI, SS, Capacity, etc.) when not connected to XBL, the system does in fact record violations offline and has a mechanism for transmitting that data upon the next connection to XBL.

This type of data is not stored on the HDD, but rather in non-volatile system memory (NVRAM).
As such, for non-stealth discs, it's strongly recommended neither to play, nor even to have the disc sitting in the drive, when connected*or* offline from XBL.

Disc checks are performed periodically even if you're just sitting in the dash/etc, and not actually playing the game. With the offline recording of system violations, even being disconnected from XBL or having your network cable unplugged doesn't serve as any form of ban-proofing.

That said, make sure your games are stealth-checked with abgx360!

[rkd2398]

Your account is generally unaffected by having your console banned. To someone who asked about the update, you must take the update to be signed in on Xbox live! And it seems that some bans may be temporary, as I've seen some posts elsewhere, that players have been able to log back into xbl after a day or two.

Really? If that is true then this has to be a ploy for Christmas. I mean come on the wal mart here is fl is selling an arcade for $200.00 with an $100 wal mart gift card. WTF is going on?

[sadalius]

Got up this morning and checked my consoles. Both banned. Anyone who knows me, knows I don't do anything besides in hand rips of my own games. That kind of deflates a couple of my own theories and leaves me back at square one in trying to figure out the pattern.

[after_burners]

even ur own rips can have a bad kreon

[he-man]

HMM YEA it could have been that update that just passed...

maybe the people i seen tonight playing Call of duty modern warfare 2 did not accept the update thats why there not banned..

hmm who knows

is there anyway to reverse the update?

i know i sound real noobish...

but i would like to know...

As far as I am aware the updates are mandatory, so without updating you can not connect to the Live service.

[GRASSASS]

I GOT MY BAN HAMMER TODAY UK
BOO HOO
not played owt early
shocking i follow all the correct steps too
but bill is the information king,
and it must be an information thing ?
the pecker

new xbox for xmas lads
looking forward to the new fw
"NO MW2 ON-LIVE" it aint sunk in yet ha ha
but i only got the on screen ban letter when i tried to sign in not a message
so i think my 26000 gamerscore will be ok to put on my future box (hopefully corruption free)
i just sold my other to a m8 (hes still online so are the others shhhh)
just me

[RedVenom]

Hi all,

Today my wife, cousin and uncle are bannend form live, my cousin always play's games before there are released so when he called me to say he was banned, i almost pissed my pants cause it's his own damn fold.
But my uncle and my wife and i only play games 1 day after release date and i always check them with abgx360.
We all have lite-on drives with 1.51 my wife and uncle haven't played wave 4 games or used the activate iso. And they play only a couple of games like COD 4, 5 , GoW2 and Halo ( ODST ).
And both of them are banned.

Now i play almost every game that's out there i have used the activate iso for wave 4 games, and i'm still on live.
All of those 360's are flashed by me, the games they have are also burned by me.
I'm still a little confused why there are banned and i'm not.

My wife has called MS cause she want's the know the reason why she was banned, she explained to the guy on the phone she and i both have are own xbox en she was banned and i'm not whe used the same games.
The also said that i was working in a gameshop and we only play original games, (there for it's no problem to get a ticket from a earlier bought game if the guy wan't to see a copy of the ticket).
The guy apologized at least 15 times to my wife but he couldn't do nothing about it.
So my wife said can we sent you a e-mail wit a copy of the tickets or send oure banned xbox to MS so they can check it.
But he can't do anything about the banned xbox, the only conclusion he could make was that i played ODST before release date.
I told him that if my company sells games before release date like ODST there's a fine to he company, so there for i won't play the game before release and ofcourse a live ban.

I'm still wondering when my console will be banned.

[sadalius]

always check my rips with kreon checlker I do everything one is supposed to do. I'm not complaining, I know the risks and being banned doesn't bother me. I'm just trying to learn how M$'s detection methods. I think there is a lot more to it than the scene realizes.

[conan281]

if u guys r gonna buy new 360s dont mod them until next year play with your originals while the wave passes

[kantamanto]

yea i just have 1 un modded console and one modded.

un modded is the back up.

but as far as this modded one goes!

i have almost 50 games!!!!!

never again will i buy another game from those pigs!

charge us damn near 65 dollars for a f*cking video game!

OUTRAGEOUS!

but i will admit i ambeing forced to dish out 59.99 for COD MW2 this tuesday..

i need to play on live with that.

M$ got me with that one..

[cainhunpi]

if u guys r gonna buy new 360s dont mod them until next year play with your originals while the wave passes

i am not sure if it is going to pass