Recover old gamertag

Discus and support Recover old gamertag in XBoX Accessibility to solve the problem; This has been a roller coaster for the past 48hrs. Let me give you a quick summary of what I am experiencing: Back in 05-06, right after it was... Discussion in 'XBoX Accessibility' started by cnapsys, Oct 17, 2020.

  1. cnapsys
    cnapsys Guest

    Recover old gamertag


    This has been a roller coaster for the past 48hrs.

    Let me give you a quick summary of what I am experiencing:

    Back in 05-06, right after it was initially released, I bought a brand new xbox 360.

    I set up an account online with my personal email account and created a gamertag.

    About ~14 years later I dusted off the damn thing and wanted to show the kids what their dad used to play...

    IMPORTANT - The gamertag has my email address associated to it.

    The problem:

    Microsoft deleted my MS account associated with that email account for inactivity sometime within the 14 year period.

    Tech support instructed me over the phone to try and sign back up for a MS account with the same email address, which I did.

    However, after that, when I logged on to xbox.com with the new MS account (which let me remind you is still associated to my original email address) a new gamertag was generated for me.

    As per tech support, we tried changing the new gamertag to the old one since ownership should be the same for both... tied to my email address. But, I got an error message that the gamertag name is not available.

    The old gamertag seems to be stuck somewhere in limbo. It still has my original email associated with it... and if tech supports sends a verification code to that email address, I receive it just fine. But, it also seems to know that the MS account for that
    original email address has been deleted.

    What can I do? Is there any way to recover that gamertag???... leaving aside the sentimental value... it now turned into a matter of principle.

    The gamertag is accessible on the xbox.com profile page. You can see it there, with all the achievements I got back in the day, game credits, etc etc...

    The gamertag is linked to my email address.

    MS deleted my original MS account through no fault of my own.

    I beieve it should be super easy to be reassigned to my new MS account, which let me stress one more time... USES THE SAME original email account.

    After talking to 4 different techs over the phone, 3 of which hung up on me, once they realized it is beyond their area of expertise... the 4th one was kind enough to try all the things mentioned above and escalate the matter to a supervisor in the end.

    I'm still waiting for that supervisor call and have a ticket# that is still open.

    But correct me if I'm wrong... as long as that gamertag is there and shows that I am the original owner... shouldn't be an easy thing to be reassigned to my new MS account?

    In all honesty, there's probably a single field in that database that needs to be edited(reassigned). And I'm thinking it's probably an internal ID or something that was unlinked when the old MS account was deleted. And now that gamertag is all alone there
    calling home for its daddy Recover old gamertag :))

    Can I get a willing, capable higher lvl tech person that has the kind of system privileges to make that modification?

    /end rant

    :)
     
    cnapsys, Oct 17, 2020
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  2. GreyStormGaming Win User

    Recover old gamertag.

    Hey,

    I see that you're having trouble redownloading your profile levass4, I suggest you go to: http://microsoft.com , log in with credentials for levass4 and go here : https://account.microsoft.com/devices?fref=home.banner.devices&refd=account.microsoft.com

    You'll be able to see which devices your account is logged on and you can remove the account from those devices and log in on your Xbox.

    Hope this helps, cheers :D
  3. WhirlwindBread2 Win User

    Recover old gamertag.

    Good morning, Nozzle.

    I tried what you said but levass4 is not one of the options to add. When I click on add new and add levass4 it says it's already in use.

    Are you able to pull up my email *** Die E-Mail-Adresse wurde aus Datenschutzgründen entfernt. *** and delete the Whirlwind and add levass4 on our profile?

    thank you

    Dawne
  4. At the Nozzle Win User

    Recover old gamertag.

  5. steeledwand7664 Win User

    Recover old gamertag??

    like OK Fowl said

    1. you would need to start out at account.live.com/acsr and fill out that form. if you answer enough of the questions correctly then you should get an email from the account recovery team with a link to reset your password if you do not they will still send
    you an email letting you know you didn't provide them with enough information.

    this next step will only help if you still have a console that your profile was ever downloaded to previously if not then you would just need to keep filling out the form with enough information as you can.

    2. if you get the email that says you haven't provided the account recovery team with enough information then you can get ahold of xbox support by either calling 1800 4 myxbox or online chat at support.xbox.com/contact-us and they can do a password reset
    escalation. they will ask you some questions about the account and the console it was on previously (see above paragraph) and they will send that form to their escalations team and if you provided enough good information on that form they will send you and
    email to reset your password.

    Again if you don't have a console your profile was on previously then getting ahold of xbox support is not going to do you any good.

    each xbox has a unique identifier in the settings area and whenever your profile is downloaded to that xbox it will show up in microsofts system as far as the first date it was signed in and the most recent date it was signed in on that particular console.
    so the escalations team can look at that console id and part of the questionnaire is approximately the date your profile was first used on that console and last used on that console and if they think the dates are close enough and the console IDs match then
    they'll say ok hes given us enough info and send you a link to reset the password.
  6. WhirlwindBread2 Win User

    Recover old gamertag.

    We only use *** Die E-Mail-Adresse wurde aus Datenschutzgründen entfernt. *** for microsoft. When we log in, Whirlwind is there. Not levasse4. Can you delete Whirlwind and add levass4. It says levass4 is already in use when we try to add it.
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