Skylander portal turning on while Xbox is off

Do you leave with Portal connected while you turn off your Xbox?

It could be that the background download are turn on, in which it might stay on.

This was an issue with the Nintendo Wii as well if they had the WiiConnect24 setting enabled.

To turn the background download off:

From the home menu go to Settings

Select "System" and press A to validate.

Go to Console Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Background Downloads.

Select "Disable" and press A to validate.

One known issue is that if you have the Skylanders portal plugged in, then it will not work. This issue is being worked on according to MS Support.

One thing to try is to completely shut the console down by (while it is on), holding the power button for about 5 seconds until the console shuts off. Then turn it on again...it will do a full boot.

I had an issue with my Kinect sensor switching on and off. The problem turned out to be the Skylanders portal connected the the USB port on the back of the Xbox.

I suspect that anything that draws power from the USB port could cause the Kinect sensor to stop working properly

They're not portal masters they're Skylanders. Why do you think it's called Skylanders because you're playing portal masters, no, the aim of the game is to rebuild the portal and in doing so you defeat the bad portal master KAOS who pretends to be diabolical
and really is.

I had a similar problem with my Xbox and the problem turned out to be my Skylanders portal plugged into the USB port. I'm guessing it was drawing too much power from the Xbox and shutting down the Kinect.

The solution was to just disconnect the portal. Hope this helps someone out there