unreadable disc error Battlefield 4

I finally found what appears to be a permant fix.  Like most of you, I struggled for weeks to understand why I kept getting 'unreadable' or 'unrecognizable' errors with my BF4 disc.  For the record, I have an original XBox 360 (white) w external 20 GB HD.  I purchased the game new in late October and played quite a bit with few issues other than spotty EA server crashes.  (I could never, however, complete a full round of DawnBreaker, and would suffer a full freeze requiring re-boot).   But around a month ago, the 'unreadable' errors started, either mid game play, or at initial startup.  I tried everything short of taking my 360 apart and cleaning the lens.  I purchased 3 new discs, cleared the cache, reformatted my HD, tried to download the game to HD (never got past 50% without error). Nothing worked.  

I was on my way to trade in my original 360 for another original 360 when one of the GameStop guys told me that data-intensive games such BF4 do not work well on the original 360s, and suggested I upgrade to 360 Slim.  

So as of yesterday, after a quick install of my refurbished Slim w built in 250 GB HD, I have played BF4 without a single issue; no errors, no screen freeze, no re-boot.  I even played several full rounds of DawnBreaker, which is a first.  Game load is far faster as well. 

Not sure this will work for all, but for those of you w original 360's, you would do well to consider upgrading to a Slim.  Good luck. 

I have roughly 300 hours logged on BF4.  I froze on Dawnbreaker today (happens alot) and had to restart the xbox.  When it restarted, it will not show a game is in the tray.  It just says "Open Tray" and will not work even after opening and closing several times.  I have tried every fix on here from cleaning the cache to blowing out the disc tray to some things that seem insane.  I have also uninstalled the updates thinking that will help.

Every other game, including the Campaign Disc, work just fine so I know its not the Xbox.

What is going on?

Thank you

No, but two days ago I went to gamestop with a $5 warranty and got a brand new copy for $3 (for a second warranty). I will bring EA to their knees with $3 warranty discs...

Finished playing multiplayer yesterday on my xbox360. went to bed. Got arround to playing again today & Iget the "this disc is unreadable" great now what do I do?

I am still also having this issue. Getting angrier by the day.

I am selling the disk and passing the problem on to somebody else. I will not buy BF games again. Thank EA!

Same thing still happens to me. I have a Xbox 360 slim 250g, and I keep getting the error. And from what I've seen here, EA apparently doesn't even have customer support that will help anyone out.

just bought it too tried other games there fine just batytlefield 4 and also my battlefield 3 dosent work either spent uin total just over 150 pounds  on software and have not even played 2 of the end game maps yet even when i get another disk still doesnt work, i bought content i carnt even use were in the 21st century not 2000BC i bet a cave man could hit the problem on the head easily Bam , put it in the disk installed everything needed and even the video at start loads fine just when it says to press start it goes to load in a black screen then bam, disk cannot be read but itz a brand new disk perfect. i now started to buy digital copies of games yet you arnt buy battlefield 3 or 4 on it  so in total have 4 battlefield 3 disks and none work and 1 battlefield 4 im getting a new console but really the one im using is fine been tested and all other games work, is there something no ones is saying is there a secret or something lol  add me if you wana play online battlefield when i do get it working some how gt tomneonx ps i even isntalled the HD content to hard drive and both disk 1 and 2 yet thats fine so if i can read the disk and says 100% installed then why carnt it play the game even after loading up ok with  A TOP NOTCH HD VIDEO of battlefield 4