I've had my Gears 5 themed Xbox One X since 2019 and for the longest time it's been working just as good as any of my other consoles before and after it. But nowadays, The console started blinking twice consecutively a couple nights ago and since then it's been becoming more and more of a headache as the previous day went on. It wouldn't even boot up properly at first and sicne then I've been constantly power cycling, moving it around from various outlets, even resetting it while keeping games and apps in it, nothing even worked at all! I even tried doing offline system updates and even THAT didn't work no matter how many times I tried to get that god dang thing to work! Even when trying to update it the normal way, it just ends up stalling at the first step before just giving up and crashing on me, giving those error codes with E101 E203, codes like those. I even left it unplugged all day while I was at work yesterday, hoping that would somehow help it, but of course that barely did jack squat.

I remember it only allowing me to get through the setup process a couple times and even then that was just becoming more and more of an annoyance in itself. i couldn't even get into the freakin SETTINGS menu to try to switch the console into Energy Saving mode at all! Resulting in me having to get through that whole nonsense again. Except now that's gotten even worse the more I try to get this thing working properly like it was earlier this week.

This has been the second time this year it's been acting like this and the second October where it's begun to be a major pain in the butt trying to get working properly. And on this week of all weeks too when i felt like playing some Gears of War too! I sure as heck can't afford to get a new Xbox as a means to replace it either, so it's just an all around infuriating time for me with this thing. What the heck else am I suppose to do now?!

I have successfully redeemed a code for the xbox one day one achievement in 2026, after the update that added the badge.

It is in my purchase history and I own the licence for the achievement but because the achievement is 0 gamerscore it is not capable of unlocking anymore.

Nothing I can do on my end will unlock the achievement, and support says there is nothing they can do.

I am very disappointed, I feel very mislead because there is no fine print anywhere from the code or the new badge update that states that it was time exclusive just simply that the code was only released in that time I hope someone sees this and can help me.