Gamertag recovery- Tell Me More...

I only found out about this tonight, and I was wonder what the deal is.

If I was to recover my gamertag while on my friends Xbox, then I'd be able to play on my profile, right? So what exactly is echanged? Avatars? Gamerscore? Arcade games? Themes? What?

How safe is it to move your profile over and back like this? Has anybody ever had their profile "lost in the mail" so to speak? Could anybody else hack my profile if I were to use this feature. Would achievements gathered on anothers Xbox (on my profile) count when I return home? And how do I get my gamertag back onto my Xbox afterwards?

I know this is an ungodly amount of questions for one thread, and if I thought about this a little longer, I could probably think of more questions too. Bassically, I think the idea of gamertag recovery is great on paper, but I'm kinda worried about losing information along the way.

It's perfectly safe from what I can tell, I've done it plenty of times with nothing bad happening.

The only thing I would make sure to do is hypothetically if you recover your Gamertag and then play games without an internet connection after that and you get some achievements, you have to reconnect to LIVE with your Gamertag on that console before you recover it back at home. Otherwise, your achievements won't transfer over. I hope that makes sense.

I only found out about this tonight, and I was wonder what the deal is.

If I was to recover my gamertag while on my friends Xbox, then I'd be able to play on my profile, right? So what exactly is echanged? Avatars? Gamerscore? Arcade games? Themes? What?

How safe is it to move your profile over and back like this? Has anybody ever had their profile "lost in the mail" so to speak? Could anybody else hack my profile if I were to use this feature. Would achievements gathered on anothers Xbox (on my profile) count when I return home? And how do I get my gamertag back onto my Xbox afterwards?

I know this is an ungodly amount of questions for one thread, and if I thought about this a little longer, I could probably think of more questions too. Bassically, I think the idea of gamertag recovery is great on paper, but I'm kinda worried about losing information along the way.

dr-bones

1) your profile is downloaded to your friends xbox. so your gamerscore, avatar, motto, bio, location, ect. are all on his xbox in the form of your account

2) its perfectly safe, and achievements transfer as long as you were on live. your profile should still be on your xbox when you get home but if not you could just recover it again.

3) you won't lose your info. your XBL profile is actually stored online, when you recover it then its like downloading something off the marketplace in a way(just not available to everyone). if your really that worried about losing your account you could just buy a memory card and transfer your profile to it. then when you go to a friend's house you just put in your memory card and your good to go.

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I only found out about this tonight, and I was wonder what the deal is.

If I was to recover my gamertag while on my friends Xbox, then I'd be able to play on my profile, right? So what exactly is echanged? Avatars? Gamerscore? Arcade games? Themes? What?

How safe is it to move your profile over and back like this? Has anybody ever had their profile "lost in the mail" so to speak? Could anybody else hack my profile if I were to use this feature. Would achievements gathered on anothers Xbox (on my profile) count when I return home? And how do I get my gamertag back onto my Xbox afterwards?

I know this is an ungodly amount of questions for one thread, and if I thought about this a little longer, I could probably think of more questions too. Bassically, I think the idea of gamertag recovery is great on paper, but I'm kinda worried about losing information along the way.

dragonic9100

1) your profile is downloaded to your friends xbox. so your gamerscore, avatar, motto, bio, location, ect. are all on his xbox in the form of your account

2) its perfectly safe, and achievements transfer as long as you were on live. your profile should still be on your xbox when you get home but if not you could just recover it again.

3) you won't lose your info. your XBL profile is actually stored online, when you recover it then its like downloading something off the marketplace in a way(just not available to everyone). if your really that worried about losing your account you could just buy a memory card and transfer your profile to it. then when you go to a friend's house you just put in your memory card and your good to go.

Nah dude, you can delete it right off his hardrive, it won't do anything to your gamertag.

Just go back home to your xBox and recover it, and your good to go.

Depends on your connection speed for the recovery time. I sadly only have about 7mb's down, so it takes about 5 minutes to recover mine.

If I was to recover my gamertag while on my friends Xbox, then I'd be able to play on my profile, right? So what exactly is echanged? Avatars? Gamerscore? Arcade games? Themes? What?

dr-bones

As best I know:

1. Yes, if you recover your profile on a friend's machine, you can play on your profile on his Xbox. It'll show up with your Avatar and Gamerscore. Those items are saved on Microsoft's servers, which is why I can go to Xbox.com and see how many achievements you have.
2. Arcade games you have purchased are tied to your profile. They won't be downloaded on your friend's Xbox, but you can download them for free and then play them. Same thing with any themes you've bought.

How safe is it to move your profile over and back like this? Has anybody ever had their profile "lost in the mail" so to speak? Could anybody else hack my profile if I were to use this feature. Would achievements gathered on anothers Xbox (on my profile) count when I return home? And how do I get my gamertag back onto my Xbox afterwards?

dr-bones

Yes, it is possible to lose achievements, by having a profile on two machines, then playing one of them offline. Just make sure you're always connected to Xbox Live. As long as you are always online with your profiles, you can't screw them up. Xbox Live won't let a non-current profile log in. You keep profiles current by recovering them. That is:

1. Recover your profile on your friend's Xbox.
2. Play on his Xbox.
3. Go home.
4. Recover your profile on your Xbox.
5. Play on your Xbox.
6. Repeat.

As to "hacking" your profile, if your friend's a dick he could buy stuff using your Microsoft points. It'd still be attached to your profile, though.

As long as you haven't been doing anything offline before deleting your profile you wont lose achievements, and no deleting it will never do any damage, just possible lose data (again, if you where offline) Think of it this way.. as long as you are online, your profile is basically constantly copied to xbl. all your doing at your friends house is downloading that copy to his xbox. you can play there, get achievements and as long as your online, they will update to xbl. Go back home, download your profile again to your xbox, and your earned achievements will be there. Let me just warn you, it seems like it's improved but it does a long time to DL a gamertag. Now also.. you realize your only dling your gamertag info, NOT any save game data, also I've had times where I lost my level in Gears of war 2 when I recovered on another xbox, funny enough tho when I recovered it back to my origional xbox I had the levels I had gained while playing on my friends xbox.. (Like I was still level 2, not my previous level plus what I had gained) Achievements progress doens't seem to be carried over either. So if you've killed 5000 zombies out of x amount you need to kill to get an achievements, that will be back to 0. Now having said all that.. make your life simpler, go to ebay buy a 512 mb memory card, put your profile on it and when your going to your friends house move the save game data of the game your going to play and put it on your memory card, a 512 mb will hold almost any save game file. trust me it's much better that way. fastr

Much much much faster then recovering your game tag twice :) It really doesn't take long at all, I just keep my gamertag on my memory card at all times anyways.. I even put most save game data on it while playing a game, so I can just grab it and bring it into the living room and play there if I want. I've had like my profile and 6 games on it at once, with more room to spare. fastr

yeah saves not downloaded games. fastr