UPD: while our checklist managed to help some people, I’ve found the most explicit manual on this issue written by Ralf Rottman so posting a link to it here so that you may check it too (it’s much longer than our checklist but it covers the topic 100%):
http://www.24100.net/2009/02/iphone-sdk-mobile-provisioning-0xe800003a-0xe8000001/
And this is another good and fun guide, thanks to this guy I stopped to bother about Provisional profile not showing up in my Targets settings list - apparently they have removed it in 2.2.1 !!
http://www.codza.com/how-to-fix-iphone-code-signing-errors
I’ve written this for one of our clients and the client managed to load the app onto his iPhone device successfuly. This being after studying the official Apple guides etc. So I’ve decided to publish our unofficial checklist here as this might be useful for others as well.
Sometimes people experience problems when publishing from their Xcode directly to their iPhone, or this issue might also arise when, as frequently in our case, developers are using one set of certificates and client, testing the app, uses their own certificate.
So, what you should have done to
check you did everything right to publish from your Xcode to your iPhone
in your apple developer web interface -
1. Added App ID
2. Added Device
3. Created certificates (1 private, 1 public, downloaded and added them to your keychain)
4. In Provisioning – added Profile
(specified your app id and device)
5. Downloaded the profile created.
In your Xcode
6. Added profile to the Organizer
7. In the project, go to Other resources / Resources and edit Info.plist – look for key “CFBundle Identifier”
replace its value with “YOUR ID”.* where “YOUR ID” taken from your apple web IDs – so if we have XXXXXXXX.com.injoit.appname, then we take XXXXXXXX and we make it:
before:
com.yourcompany.${PRODUCT_NAME:identifier}
after:
XXXXXXXX.*
In case getting any errors when publishing from XCode to iPhone, try disconnecting iPhone, relaunching both your iPhone and Xcode and trying again.
The whole procedure is described here:
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/manage/distribution/index.action
(Building your Application with Xcode for Distribution). Some steps in the guide (like setting Target) seem unnecessary and we can just publish w/o problems, just check you’ve done everything correctly in the web interface at Apple website, added your profile to the Organizer and also edit the .plist file.
Hope this helps.
Taras Filatov, CEO to Injoit.com.
Thanks to Vladimir who helped to write this checklist.