Battlefield 4 Existing player profile data appears to be damaged and cannot be used

Please see the followign article for more information on this error (BF3 yet still relevant) : http://help.ea.com/en/article/my-profile-save-data-for-battlefield-3-is-damaged-or-corrupted-what-can-i-do/

Please note that deleting your Profile Save Data will also delete all progress in Campaign as the Campaign Save Data is included in this deletion.

For some people it worked.  I exhausted their fixes and they had to have "Experts" undo it.  Logged on this morning and they actually fixed it.

I may have found a temporary solution to this issue.

Delete your save profile data, and clear cache.

Start the game, and go through your usual setup stuff like you've been doing.

Exit the game. Insert a USB thumb drive. Copy the newly created player profile onto the USB drive. Do not move the profile. Make a copy, and place one on the USB thumb drive.

Start the game. Select your main Xbox 360 HD (NOT the USB drive), and off ya go. This also works (for me at least) after having the console powered off overnight.

Using this method I have not had the error come up. I have noticed that I must still make adjustments to my vehicle settings but, all my player settings have remained in tact. Also, I've had no more freezing, no more spawning without weapons, and no more loading to a black screen that does nothing.

There's unfortunately no way to fix the damaged corrupted profile but you can simply delete it and re-download it. Please follow the instructions below to safely delete the profile and then download it again.

Delete Profile Safely:
 

• Select Delete Profile Only. This deletes the profile but leaves saved games and achievements. > This is what you'd want to pick.
• Select Delete Profile and Items to delete the profile and the associated saved games and achievements.
   

 Download Profile Again:
 

1. Press the Xbox Guide button on your controller (large X button in the center of your controller).
2. Select Download Profile.
3. Enter the Windows Live ID associated with your Xbox LIVE gamertag.
4. Now, enter your Windows Live ID password.
5. Select the storage device for your profile (for example, Hard Drive).
    

Your profile should begin downloading now. 

Now if that didn't work "like for me" try this: Delete Profile and Items

1. Go to Settings, and then select System.
2. Select Storage.
3. Select All Devices.
4. Select Gamer Profiles.
5. Select the gamertag that you want to delete.
6. Select Delete.
7. Select the following

Delete Profile and Items. NOTE: you may wnat save any campign saved games such as; Skyrim, Fallout, and any other game with campaign to a flashdrive or create a offline account profile such as one meant for playing offline and move all game saved data to that profile. If you don't follow these instructions you could lose all campaign related saved data.

1. Press the Xbox Guide button on your controller (large X button in the center of your controller).
2. Select Download Profile.
3. Enter the Windows Live ID associated with your Xbox LIVE gamertag.
4. Now, enter your Windows Live ID password.
5. Select the storage device for your profile (for example, Hard Drive).
    

Your profile should begin downloading now

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Ima getting all the same plus, I get into a server, play about 30 sec, and get "disc unreadable"