iPhone App Ad Hoc Distribution Issue - "Failed to sync"

Question

Just getting back into iPhone dev after almost two years off (last dev'd on iOS3) and I'm getting grief while trying to do an ad hoc distribution.

I:

• Added new devices in the provisioning portal (inc. my own to test)
• Recreated my ad hoc provisioning profile
• Installed it in Xcode
• Updated the target to use it and built the app (no problem so far)
• Dragged the app and profile into iTunes
• Sync'd
• Got the message "Failed to sync"

Knowing that this was likely an issue with the profile I started from scratch and:

• Removed the old profile
• Recreated my certificate
• Recreated the profile
• Completed the above steps
• Got the same result

I'm not 100% sure of my target and build settings. Here are screen shots of the relevant sections in case it helps:

Target Code Signing (the correct profile is selected):

Project Configuration:

I've been advised in another post to refer to the documentation but I have been unable to locate specific information on these settings. I still have doco on how to do it in Xcode 3.x but it doesn't sdeem to be doing me much good here.

Thanks in advance,

Alan.

Answer 1

A big thanks to you Sebastian. Your post didn't directly answer my issue but switching to using the Organiser got me one step further and finally led me to a post that pointed out the critical detail:

Can be debugged must be set to NO for ad hoc distributions in Entitlements.plist

That was my problem and I have now successfully installed after making the change.

Answer 2

See a previous post of mine related to AdHoc application deploy.

I guess the way to do it properly, is to use the Organizer and not iTunes Sync.

Note about your screenshots : The only issue I noticed is the Code Signing Identity in Debug should use debug provisioning profile and not distribution one.

Hope this helps.