[Resolved] Missing step = using the iPhone Configuration Utility?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

The process is usually this, assuming the provisioning profile is installed:

  1. Connect iDevice
  2. Load iPhone Configuration Utility
  3. Add the App to the library (overwriting if necessary)
  4. Select the device
  5. Applications Tab - find the app - click ‘Install’.

With one app, this is fine. But with multiple apps under the same profile, originally it was 50/50 - either your existing installed app shows up or your new one does. Now it’s nothing - I can add as many apps as I want to the Applications Library but nothing is there to install when I click on the device.

Am I supposed to be making a seperate profile for every app? (and I was just sometimes circumventing that?) Or is there some kind of selection step I’m missing?

Cheers :slight_smile: [import]uid: 41884 topic_id: 26417 reply_id: 326417[/import]

#2

Tried making a seperate profile and built the app to that profile, still doesn’t show up on the install list. I must be doing *something* wrong…

EDIT: Oh. If I uninstall the first app, it disappears from the install list and the second app takes its place. But if I uninstall again the first app is still gone. So I still don’t have a reliable method of installing two different applications. [import]uid: 41884 topic_id: 26417 reply_id: 107159[/import]

#3

If you use two different provisioning profiles this *SHOULD* work just fine. I have individual AdHoc ones for apps I want to keep on my phone and a generic one I’ve named “Corona” for testing all the others. [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 26417 reply_id: 107187[/import]

#4

No luck; my response there was with two different profiles. I can only get one app to appear.

(Maybe xCode is the way to go, but it doesn’t seem to accept dragging in applications anymore?)

EDIT: ARGH. Uninstalled new app…and it disappeared to be replaced by the first one. Now I can’t install the app I’m working on. I wonder if I need to have a configuration profile? (No idea what that does, even…)

EDIT2: Really puzzling. The only way to get the second app back on was to just keep re-adding and overwriting the previous app. After 4 overwrites it finally showed up. [import]uid: 41884 topic_id: 26417 reply_id: 107193[/import]

#5

Are your adhoc profiles tied to a distribution cert, or a development cert? I’m wondering if that might be the issue. [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 26417 reply_id: 107367[/import]

#6

Development cert. I have no distribution certs.

It seems the only reliable (well, even that’s not clear yet) way is to uninstall the existing app, close the utility, reopen, and from there app 1 is gone and app 2 appears instead.

The only thing that even pops out as wrong is that device certificate is “signed by an unknown authority”. I installed the WWDR certificate before but that hasn’t changed the message. [import]uid: 41884 topic_id: 26417 reply_id: 107403[/import]

#7

I use distribution cert + provisioning profile (adhoc obviously) with unique app ID for each app I want to install (and leave installed) on my device. Would you consider giving that a go? [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 26417 reply_id: 107550[/import]

#8

Well, I just gave it a try…but that generates a zip file that’s unusable by the Utility. Ergo, what’s the point?

Bleh. Just spent a half hour doing random overwrites and reloads, just can’t load the app. I don’t suppose there’s a way to get Xcode 4.3 to actually allow for app installs?

EDIT: May have solved it using an app id change…will see how it functions tomorrow. [import]uid: 41884 topic_id: 26417 reply_id: 107736[/import]

#9

Yeah, the gist seems to be making sure you have distinctly different app names AND app ids. Regardless of your profiles or certificates the name/id has to be different or the Utility just can’t handle it. I’ll mark as resolved. [import]uid: 41884 topic_id: 26417 reply_id: 107882[/import]

#10

Thanks for updating and marking as resolved; this has been educational for me as well and I’m sure it will help others in the future. [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 26417 reply_id: 107947[/import]