IPhone Ad-hoc distribution sync error

Question

I am working on an iPhone application for a customer. After the development will be finished the application will be on the Apple Store, but meanwhile during its development, on a regular basis the customer wants to see and install the application on his own phone to check the current status of the development. -I went to the provisioning portal registered my customer's device udid and added to my application's provisioning profile. -I downloaded the provisioning profile and installed it. -I then built the ipa and sent it to my customer.

SHouldn't this be enough?

The customer is experimenting a sync error. He can import the ipa inside itunes but at the end of the sync he receive this error alert on his iphone.I tested this ipa file on two other iphones and is working (both registered and one is ios 5.1 and the other 5.0.1)..Where should I check for misconfigurations?

I'm running the latest xcode version 4.3.1

Answer 1

Make sure you build with the distribution provision. I use a new Xcode build configuration for this (called Ad Hoc) and I make sure my archive build uses this new build configuration. The customer will need a copy of this distribution provision (which he double clicks), and you send him the ipa file. He drags this into his iTunes library and he is then able to install the app to his device.

Answer 2

Sometimes the provisioning profile needs to be installed on the device separately. I encountered this problem once with my team member who had Windows.

Just send your customer the profile and ask to install it on the device.

You may need iPhone Configuration Utility to install the profile on the device.