xbox keeps turning off why. when you go to play or whatever

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I want it as an option when you are telling the xbox one to turn off on a per session basis. For most of the time, i usually do want the entire system to power down; however, if I want to play PS4 or Xbox 360 or something else I do not want the TV and AVR
to turn off, just the Xbox one.

It should be as easy as adding it to the confirm box that comes up when you tell the Xbox one to turn off. "Xbox, turn off " -"unit" -"only" -"not all". Whatever the command should be to only turn off Xbox one itself.

[/quote] As I already said you do have this option whenever you do not want the t.v to go off then you have to go back to settings and check off the box that allows you to only keep the t.v and avr on and just leave the box unchecked for the console itself.
However you want it set up on certain days you are going to have to go back and reset it to how you see fit. But the options are available for you to do so I don't think your understanding what I wrote.

im playing my new xbox, I have perfect signal (all bars) and when playing a game or watching a show, after like twenty minutes I get disconnected and have to turn my xbox off or reset my network settings then turn it on again to keep playing. I dont know
if its microsoft or whatever but its nice to know im not the only one!

Very possible. Since this setting more just turns off the display and keep everything running, it was still running a task keeping it from idling with nothing to do. I know, with the case of the Xbox One, when you had that setting on, still in a game,
and turn off the Xbox that your fan will be going the entire time because it is still processing that the game is being played.

I want it as an option when you are telling the xbox one to turn off on a per session basis. For most of the time, i usually do want the entire system to power down; however, if I want to play PS4 or Xbox 360 or something else I do not want the TV and AVR
to turn off, just the Xbox one.

It should be as easy as adding it to the confirm box that comes up when you tell the Xbox one to turn off. "Xbox, turn off " -"unit" -"only" -"not all". Whatever the command should be to only turn off Xbox one itself.

Does the external hard drive ever turn off when the Xbox is off?

The console has a setting to turn external storage off when the console is turned off. It's in the power settings. However, for some reason, some externals do not turn off when the console is turned off, even when the "When Xbox is off, turn off storage" setting is enabled.

The second thing that will cause most externals to go to sleep is inactivity. Usually there is a setting in the drive's own firmware that says "go to sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity" or whatever.

Here's what I would recommend: -

1. If it's not already enabled, enable the "When Xbox is off, turn off storage" setting in the console's power settings, then test to see if the drive turns off when the Xbox is turned off.

2. If option 1 is no help and the drive never turns off, disable that setting, then see if the external turns off after a period of inactivity once the Xbox has been turned off.

If you unplug the drive when the console is off, obviously, if you have the console set to automatically update your games/apps, it won't be able to update anything on the external while the Xbox is off as it's not connected. That is the primary downside of what you're currently doing.