Xbox 360 turned on in the middle of the night

Hey, Buckled!

Sorry to see your Xbox 360 is trying to become sentient! In cases where the power button likes to decide what it wants to do, it's generally dirty. Depending on which type of 360 you own, there could be different issues here.

If you have an physical button as your power button, there's a chance that there might be something behind it that is causing it to not work when you press it and turn itself on when it feels like it. If you check out our

Xbox 360 No Power Solution wizard, select "Original Xbox 360" as the first selection. Second page will ask you to press the eject button. Regardless of what happens when you do that, click "Yes" on that page. This will bring you to steps on how to remove
the face plate on the console. Follow the instructions there to find out if your face plate needs replaced.

If you have the touch capacitor power button, it might be dirty. You can clean that off with a bit of rubbing alcohol to see if that fixes it. If not, follow the steps in the wizard linked above for the "S console". You may need to get your console repaired
if it doesn't help you out.

Let me know how it goes! I'm happy to get you in the right direction if you get stuck on any of these steps.

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Your Xbox is haunted. Pouring a circle of salt around the console would be your first step. If the problem persists, there are several avenues you can pursue. Please see the following support articles:

Xbox > Haunted Console > Contacting your local priest/rabbi/medicine man to perform exorcism/jewish exorcism/voodoo.

Xbox > Haunted Console > Contacting those brothers from supernatural to help, almost die, but ultimately succeed due to luck and charm alone

Xbox > Haunted Console > How to sell/trade in your haunted console to make it someone else's problem.

In all seriousness, that seems to be an issue related to either a controller incorrectly receiving the input to turn your console on, or as you guessed, with your kinect. I'm not seeing a support article on this specific issue. Have you considered a hard
power down before going to bed? Holding down the power button for 10 seconds. That will take it out of instant-on mode, and might address your issue.

yeah i've also been having this problem IDK Y but it does turn its self on

Hi Borden85 have you tried to gently wipe the power button on the front of the console with a soft cloth just in case it small amount of dirt/grease on it?

Gave it a shot. Looked pretty clean. Time will tell!