UPDATE : more at the bottom, but basically it has taken me (and Microsoft) all day to discover that 0x801901f4 means there is a "corrupt file" somewhere in your profile on the X Box One. to fix you need to delete profile, do a full reset (but can save the games and apps), restart and re-add the account.
the above took me one frustrating online chat, one horrible phone call, one try things and inform phone call and finally one very, very helpful phone call to work out. five or so hours of my life, i don't mind if i do not get it back so long as that helps someone.
first and foremost, to be sure, my apologies if you have found this post by doing a smart google or similar search for the error code x801901f4 and are here in the hope of an answer. i don't have one. this should be no surprise, look you see, as neither does the generator or if you like creator of this error code.
that creator would, of course, be Microsoft. it would seem they are having some issues with their assorted gaming platforms. not that they are being particularly helpful or forthcoming with details, information or what you might call fixes for it.
we, or rather the boys, are now on the 3rd day of this brave new year of seeing this as they attempt to play on that fancy X Box thingie. no, i don't play myself - nature decreed that i more or less stop playing with such things when the number of buttons on the controller exceeded the number of fingers i had.
a search around the web - including the official Microsoft site - gives the gentle hint of a suggestion that there is a major issue with their network at the moment. sadly, as is all too common in this day and age, details and information are both scarce to the point that they possibly do not even exist.
one of the more interesting aspects of the above is seen in the below. how fascinating that Microsoft should issue an error code for three straight days, yet have absolutely no information at all on what that error code might be.
this is truly the personification of the modern world. we live in the "information age", where there is an abundance of means and channels to distribute and easily access knowledge. and yet all major companies seek to limit or close down how much information is available.
it is incredibly frustrating that these new fangled game machines require you to access the network and sign in to be of use. as things stand, the fancy x box of the boys has been sat as a lump of useless plastic for three days so far this year.
say what you will of my nostalgia, but one did not have such problems when you simply switched on a device, loaded a tape or plugged in a cartridge and just got on with playing a game. sure, the graphics and that were not as fancy, and to play against a friend you had to have them come to your house, but at least it all worked proper.
yes, indeed, Mircosoft, something went wrong. thus far what we have established is that what went wrong is called 0x801901f4, but you do not know what that is and i do not know either.
no, i have not done a "hard reset" as it seems someone tried to do that to fix the issue with no joy. yes, we have unplugged the device, restarted it, switched off internet, reset routers, etc. the problem lies on the Microsoft end, they just seem unwilling to sort it out.
undoubtedly many others out there, possibly reading this now, have the same issue. hopefully it gets all sorted soon, and nice nice, as it would be nice to be able to use the device we and many others have paid an awful lot of coins of money for.
THE FIX : really, some attrocious service from Microsoft, but in the end some excellent help. basically i ended up creating a new account to try logging in with, and that worked fine. somehow a file or detail in my profile on the X Box had become corrupt, so the fix was deleting the profile from the console, doing a reset (but selecting the one that saves games and apps), starting over and re-adding the profile.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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