The iPhone is attached to a Mac runnning the latest iTunes version and I am 100% sure that her UDID is in the provisioning file. Her iPhone has not been jailbroken and we even restored it to factory settings.
I am having trouble installing our development build on this one iPhone. The error is:
the application "[Application Name]" was not
installed on the iPhone "iPhone"
because the signer is not valid
I am 100% sure that the UDID is accurately entered in the provisioning file and that they correctly copied the right provision file/build combo. This same combo has been successfully installed on over a dozen iphones.
We have been able to install this on some devices with no problems.
Edit:
From comments to an answer:
We can install it on 100 iphone with
our account. We have about 40 iphones
in this provisioning profile and it
works on 38 of them.
I had a fix that seemed to work for one user who was having troubles:
remove all offending profiles and apps
restart
add back provisioning profile FIRST
sync device
now add app resource
sync again to get app on device
the offending machine was a windows box... dunno if that makes a difference.
If someone else gets this issue - try this and let us know if this is the actual fix or workaround! This goblin has rarely been seen and solved with the same steps.
this was my reference for the fix idea:
http://iphone.forums.wordpress.org/topic/installing-beta#post-1194
Does the answer to this question help you at all?
Signer not valid error
Put the signing at the Target level, not the Project level
I'm personally not sure what that means but it worked in that case
We can install it on 100 iphone with our account. We have about 40 iphones in this provisioning profile and it works on 38 of them. Any other ideas?
I'll tell Buzz that you say hi and if you can help us we'll get you a moon rock!
(Ignore: I misread the question and didn't notice he had dozens of installs already so my advice does not apply)
If you have just the standard developers account, you can only install on up to five phones before the certificate becomes invalid for further installs. If you've already installed it on five phones that is most likely the problem.
Tell Buzz some random guy on the internet said, "Hi!"
A couple of things to try:
Renew the profile at the Developer's portal. It may have expired or become corrupt.
Create a new provisioning profile
Does the mobileprovision file show up on the device after sync? You should see it in
Settings->General->Profiles
If it doesn't then that would be the problem. Check once again that the UDID is correct - same UDID on iTunes and in the developer portal. Try syncing iTunes with the mobileprovision without trying to install the app. If it still doesn't get installed then CHECK THE UDID. If it is getting installed on all other devices, UDID is most likely the issue.
If the distribution signing certificate was revoked in the meantime and recreated, you need to remove the old provisioning profile from the device first. This is on an iOS 3.1.3 device.
This happened to me recently and I resolved it. Situation was that I had an ad hoc provisioning profile I was using successfully for around 40 devices with several different apps. When a new device was required I would add it to the profile, download, then use 'share' from XCode with the same archived app but the new profile.
Recently my distribution certificate expired, so I created a new one and recreated the provisioning profiles. Subsequently, I could still install on the existing devices but would get an error trying to install on new devices, even though I had added them to the profile and installed the profile on the device.
The secret was that although I had created the new distribution cert and added it to my KeyChain, there was still a copy of the old cert in the KeyChain, and that was being used to sign the app. It turns out that if you do not delete the old provisioning profiles from XCode, when you start up XCode it will recreate the old cert in the KeyChain, and that will be used to sign the app, which means that the new profile with the new device (created with the new cert) will not match.
Solution: when you renew your cert, delete all the old profiles signed with that cert, delete the old cert, then recreate, download and install the new profiles.
hth
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I have a valid provisioning profile, the program I'm running works fine on one of my iPhones. However, for some reason I cannot add it to my other iPhone. Here's how it looks:
Show provisioning profile
Click to add one
Select my provisioning profile
Aaaaaand nothing happens
Has anyone else experience a similar problem or does anyone know what might be the solution? As of just now it just seems that xcode is unresponsive.
Rkey, I had this same problem. If you haven't found a solution, this is how I solved mine.
Instead of trying to install a provisioning profile by yourself, run the app on the device without trying to set it up yourself. Now, if I'm not mistaken, you'll get the "no provisioning profile found for this executable" message or something like that.
You need to change the Code Signing Identities in the build settings of your Xcode6.
Change everything [Code signing identity, Debug, Any SDK, Any iOS SDK, Release, Any iOS SDK)to iOS Developer and set Provisioning Profile to Automatic.
After that, if you try to run the app on the phone again, the prompt will give you an option to "Fix Issue" and clicking on "fix issue" solves the problem.
Hope it works for you.
Go to apple portal and add all the required devices there.
Then go to the provisioning profile you want to download, edit it and make sure the following things:
The App ID associated with the provisioning profile and your App ID in the info.plist is the same.
All the required devices are included in this profile(they are checked marked for the profile).
Check the associated provisioning profile certificate is valid and you have a private key pair for that certificate.
In xcode settings select the provisioning profile and code signing
identity(the certifcate) for the scheme you are running the
application.
Updated answer for XCode 10 ...
See here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52434756/3216970
Ran into this w/an Ionic app initially created w/XCode 9.
Absolutely none of the usual fixes for automatic/manual profiles or certificates worked.
The issue was with XCode 10's "new & improved" Build System. It just doesn't work w/older projects, and none of the error messages actually explain why.
Go to File -> Workspace Settings.
Change Build System to "Legacy Build System"
Now magically the Provisioning Profiles show up on your device and you can deploy the app you needed to get on a device 3 hours ago when you started messing with this provisioning BS for the umpteen-dozenth time. Thanks Apple.
Tonight I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, and upgraded to Xcode 4.3.1 (iOS 5.1). And now when I try and run debug mode on my device (iPad) I get "A valid provisioning profile for this executable was not found". I have tried every suggestion in past posts on this issue. I have generated a new certificate. I have set my code signing to use the new certificate. I have updated the provisioning profile to use the new certificate. I have gone into the .pbxproj file and deleted all references to the provisioning profile. I have cleaned and closed Xcode a million times. No matter what I do, I still get the same error when trying to run on the device.
In Organizer, the provisioning profile shows up as "Valid profile" in my Library, but under the Provisioning Profiles listed for the device there are none listed. I have tried clicking the Add button and importing it manually - nothing happens. It doesn't show up. When I click on the device icon in Organizer is says "Provisioning No provisioning profiles". However when I go to my iOS Provisioning Portal online and click on the device, the provisioning profile shows up there as being associated to the device.
Any ideas? I am pulling my hair out here.
Do you by chance have two developer accounts with different sets of devices/apps? I encountered this situation (see what "iOS Team Provisioning" profile is matching "iPhone Developer"). The only way I have found to switches teams, so to speak, is to select your device and click "Add to Portal" and log in with the correct Apple ID.
The solution that worked for me was:
-Deleted all references to provisioning profile in .pbxproj.
-Deleted all certificates in keychain.
-Imported my certificate to keychain.
-Created new provisioning profile and configured it in developer portal.
-Refreshed provisioning profiles in xcode organizer.
-Deleted the wildcard provisioning profile that xcode automatically adds.
-Went into code signing and selected the signing account associated to the correct provisioning profile.
-Plugged in a different iOS device (switched iPad with for fresh iPhone)
-Built for a new iOS device.
And it worked. Not sure which step was the magic one. I did not reinstall xcode.
Make sure there is a valid private and public key generated for the profile. More importantly make sure the keys are stored in the right place in keychain.
They should be under login, not system or any other spot. This was causing and issue for me, and it took me a while to find the solution.
Hope this helps.
I have seen this problem before, and my "standard" solution is
a) make a new dummy iOS project , using Xcode menu - file - new - project. Check code signing is your developer certificate. Compile and see if it can run on your iPhone/ipad hardware.
If a) fails, it is something with your certificates and keychain. Clear all and make new certificates
If b) works, it is something in the .xcodeproj file or build folder for your problem project. Remove all files and folders in build. Use your backup (sure you have a daily backup for your project!!!), and copy an "old" .xcodeproj file to your problem project. Use Xcode - project - clean, xcode - project - build as - testing , and hereafter "run".
Before trying above solution, make an extra backup.
good luck, and remember you are not the first having certificate problems.
In my case the problem was not at all related to keys, certificates, provisioning profiles or any other of the reasons mentioned here and everywhere else. It turns out that some other developer in a different team borrowed the iPad we use and changed the device's date to one year in the future! After I set the correct Date and Time and ran the application on the device everything worked just fine.
Unfortunately Xcode didn't warn me about this, and it was until I needed to fix another unrelated problem that Instruments informed me of this situation about the wrong date on the device.
Simply check "Code Signing" section in "Build Settings". If you previosly build your app for appstore publication maybe you forgot change from distribution profile to development profile.
If you are on Xcode 6, and running into this problem when adding a new device (iPhone 5/6), you can follow the steps here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22993092/a-valid-provisioning-profile-for-this-executable-was-not-found-error-when-tryi/26153171#26153171
I have an iPhone app that was handed to me. I deleted all of the existing certificates & provisioning profiles and created them from scratch. I believe I have set everything in the Provisioning Portal correctly:
Distribution Certificate created
Devices with correct UDID's added
Ad-Hoc Provisioning file created with associated devices
I was able to successfully build & Archive my application. When I save it as a *.ipa and drag that and the *.mobileprovision file into iTunes everything is good, until my phone is syncing.
At that point I get an iTunes Sync: Failed to Install error. Other testers get the error: The app was not installed because the signer is not valid
I am not sure how to resolve this?
I have received that error because I had created my .ipa file with the ad hoc provisioning profile BEFORE I added the devices. Are you sure that you are using the most recent provisioning profile when you create the ipa? You may need to check which scheme you are using and verify its right
Everything was correct, except for the final stage where I am given the save options. The profile matched my Distribution profile, but for the wrong app. It just defaulted to one of them. I had to manually change it to the Ad Hoc Distribution I was building for. Silly mistake.
This question was not resolved by the above suggestions, however we were able to fix it by removing the entitlements from the build.
This problem happened while working on an old app we were updating. No jailbreaking, just an ad hoc .ipa sent over email between team members. All provisions were correct.
We were able to figure out the issue was entitlements by trying to install using "iPhone Configuration Utility" instead of iTunes. That gave us the actual error message which was easy to fix.
Debugging this issue was easier than with iTunes. It also has better UI for installing ad hoc builds. I recommend you try it here:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/27986/apple-iphone-configuration-utility
i already face this , finnaly i found,.
If Your Certificates, Provisoning Profiles then & the ipa is generated,,
so there is no problem in your ipa File,
But Problem in Specific Device in which you are try to insalled,,
If Your Device is JailBroken Then Easily iTunes cab Install ipa,,
But If Not Then You Have To Register/Add device to
https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action
->Procsoning Profile -> Devices
Then & Then Ipa File Is Installed
EDIT: After trying many, many things over and over again I've decided to upgrade to xCode 4 and problems stopped. I don't know what was wrong so unfortunately this is my advice to the rest of you who are lost with the problem I had.
PS thank you all for your suggestions :)
Hi everyone,
I don't know why, but my app stopped compiling on my device after trying to enable push notifications. In debug mode with developer certificate it was running ok, but I was getting push notification related error in the console. After reading about this problem I realized I'll have to sign the code with Distribution certificate in order to really test the push notification. After "playing" with these things my app could not be deployed on the testing device anymore…
I am getting 2 errors over and over again:
1. The executable was signed with invalid entitlements
and when I solve this problem by changing the "code signing identity" to another developer certificate (admin) I get another one:
2. A valid provisioning profile for this executable was not found.
I tried all of the following:
- I logged with my team admin's pass and deleted /revoked certificates and profiles, recreated them and installed them on my computer. In keychain everything seems ok (certificates with keys) and in xCode Organiser (new profiles) also.
I cleaned targets several times
created Entitlements.plist with custom value "get-task-allow" unchecked
In Entitlements.plist I put my bundle identifier
I removed profiles from iphone device and tried again. It installs right provisioning profile
I restarted computer/xcode, iPhone several times
Then, when I saw that I'm going crazy I've decided to try to start another application just to see if this one can be run.
Guess what… It can't. I get the same two errors as above.
I'll explain how I recreated things in developer portal step by step so that you can see If I'm missing something. Just have in mind that we are using 2 developer tools accounts (team admin (A), team member (B)). I'm saying this because I might have done something wrong while recreating certificates and profiles…
REMOVING OLD SETTINGS
1 deleted certificates (dev and distribution) and private keys from keychain.
2 removed all provisioning profiles from xCode Organiser.
3 In developer portal (as Admin) I revoked its Development certificate and then removed Distribution certificate
4 In devices I removed my iPhone device
5 I removed all Development provisioning profiles. The Distribution ones cannot be removed???
6 Then I logged into Team Member's account and revoked development Certificate
CREATING NEW CERTIFICATE; PROFILE...
1 In keychain assistant I created new CSR and uploaded it, admin approved it and I downloaded it along with WWDR intermediate certificate. Drag and dropped them into keychain - login / category - certificates
2 I added my device name/identifier
3 In PROVISIONING/DEVELOPMENT I created new provisioning profile. I added my developer, all devices, and app ID.
4 Then from my team member account I downloaded it, double clicked it and that was it.
5 In xCode Project info I set code sign to developer certificate, and I ran and built with Device / Debug. I get build succeeded and error: The executable was signed with invalid entitlements
TAPPING IN THE DARK:
//I create enitlements.plist and run and I get: Error from debugger: The program being debugged is not being run.
//Then I add get-task-allow = false and I get the: The executable was signed with invalid entitlements.
//If I change it to true then I get: Error from debugger
//Then I add my app Id to Entitlements as a pure string. Nothing changes here :( - either
Thank you very, very much for even reading my post.
Hope I'll solve this before going nuts…
Best regards,
Luka
For that you have import private key(.p12) of mac of your team leader then it will work.I face the same problem it works then only if you will have private of that mac from where the certificate made.Hope so that it will help.
I just spent a few hours with this exact error, the steps i took to resolve it were:
check that app ID has push enabled
create a new provisioning profile
delete all other profiles in xcode and on the device and use new profile
(building and installing on device without error)
create entitlements.plist and add in get-task-allow, change type to boolean, set to true
(now getting entitlement error)
So after much googling i found a blog post about how images can affect this so i checked and noticed we were in the middle of changing the app icon and currently didn't have one set. So I threw in a older app icon and it just started building like magic and giving me the device token.
I am trying to test my iPhone app in XCode 4 and it is telling me that i don't have a valid provisioning profile even though i do. What is wrong?
There are a lot of factors that could cause this. More information is needed. The primary things I would suggest are:
Is your device authorized in the provisioning profile (using the Developer Portal or team provisioning profile)
Have you downloaded the latest profile from the developer portal? And made sure its not expired?
Have you specified the correct provisioning profile in the build settings for your project? If you have had to make changes to the profile or renew it you will have to re-download it AND install it in Xcode AND change your build settings to point to the new one even though it has the same name.