I got my chatpad/360 Messenger Kit the other day and found the chatpad a wonder to use. I can name my Pinata and type messages so fast that one of my friends forgot I was on the Xbox and started sending me url’s thinking I was on my PC. I was beginning to think that despite my reservations about the new mute and volume controls on the supplied headset this was a great buy.
Until tonight.
I was chatting to a friend using my chatpad and the new headset, I have to use this headset as the chatpad has a different connector at the bottom making the old headset incompatible. He was complaining of a serious echo and feedback yet everything was sounding great at my end. He rebooted his 360 and still the problem persisted. I swapped back to my old headset and immediately the problem stopped. Swapping yet again to the Messenger kit and chatpad brought the problem back 
I’m very disappointed with this as I really want to leave my chatpad connected instead of swapping it in when I want to type more than a few words. Here’s hoping for a fix or workaround from Microsoft pretty soon.
Update:
I got a replacement chatpad today thanks to maffu and this one doesn’t suffer the same problem as my original. Looks like I had a faulty unit or headset, let’s hope this is an isolated case.
#1 by DeadPlasmaCell on September 16, 2007 - 6:59 am
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Damn, I’ve had mine for a couple of days now and I’m having the same echo issue. Like you said, it’s fine on my end, but everyone complains about it echoing really bad..I’m taking it back for an exchange later today.. hopefully I’ll get a working one. The Chatpad is fantastic though!
#2 by gothi on September 17, 2007 - 9:08 pm
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Looks like a faulty batch went out
I should have made a note of the serial before I got mine replaced to see if they tie up with yours but to be honest I was anxious to get it swapped over as soon as possible.
#3 by Steve on February 20, 2008 - 2:25 pm
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I have the same problem. Did a replacement solve the problem or do you still suffer with the echo issue?
#4 by gothi on February 20, 2008 - 8:03 pm
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The replacement solved the problem although I do occasionally notice that when people speak on games such as Halo 3 that my mic shows activity too. This is easily solved by turning down the volume on my headset slightly.
I’ve had one complaint of echo problems since the swap but I’m not convinced it was me as when I spoke to tell them that my headset was muted previously they were unable to hear me.
The short answer is to definitely get a replacement unit if you’ve got the same problem, I know now several people with the Messenger Kit and I was the only one that had echo problems.