How to get xbox Live gold (especially the multiplayer functions) to work on xbox 360

try to see if it is the account you see on ipad is the same one you use on xbox

If you were able to play online in Mincraft, then it sounds as if your gold is working, it's just the games you may be trying to play don't have online multiplayer anymore. NFS Hot Pursuit and Star Wars Battlefront 2 are original Xbox games and the servers
for the original Xbox were shut down years ago. So you won't be able to play online in those. So you may want to look at the other games you've try to see if they are original games or 360 games. Even then, servers for some 360 games may be shut down at this
point. Usually that's mostly going to be older sports games.

As far as the friends issue, when you signed into your account on the 360 did you download your account to the console or just try to sign in?

Thanks for that explanation.

we did just download the account onto the 360, but I am still not able to see my friends.

when we got the 360 I already had an iPad with my xbox account I had 40 friends on it but on the xbox when I signed it didn't show any friends. and when we bought the gold the same thing happened. and yes we bought it on my account. alsoIi got into some
games like Nfs Hot pursuit and starters battlefront 2 and it wound,t sign into my account on these games also I couldn't do multiplayer on most other games with the exception of minecraft do you know what going on?

Can you explain how it's not working? What error message do you see when you try to play online? Are you signed into the account that bought the gold?