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• Bump. I am experiencing this exact problem as well and desperately need some help!! I've followed both Apple and Appcelerator's guides to running on the device and neither have worked.

• Hey everyone,

  After hours of fail I have found a solution (in my instance anyways, i hope it saves someone else the same pain).

  I verified all required certificates were valid and present, then installed the 'Kitchen Sink' app onto my phone.

  To my surprise, this worked, installed just fine.

  Then performed a full iPhone sync with iTunes.

  Launch your app in the emulator, close, then run on device, your app should now load into iTunes and sync.

  No idea why it worked, but hope it's useful for someone.

  I gotta say i love the platform, but flaky is definitely the word!

• what do the crash log & build log say?

• XCode's Base SDK is set to iPhone Simulator 4.0 and it builds fine- no errors. But Titanium doesn't build it and gives that install error right after the codesign prompt. Here's the complete XCode build log, with my app name and username taken out: https://gist.github.com/c5a6eb0720771f8000ff

  Thanks again for your help.

• Bump- I'm hoping somebody can help…

  Thanks again.

• I found the solution! Try checking all of the PNG's in the app. For me, the default.png (my splash screen file) somehow got saved in a weird, almost-corrupted way after I edited it in Photoshop and the app then couldn't compile it properly because of that.

  I would suggest trying to open any photo files you have in your app from your computer, and if you see any direct error (Photoshop told me there was an unknown error and it couldn't open the image at all), delete the file and re-create it. That solved it for me!

• I haven't actually solved it yet, but I found a fix-around: I still build it via Titanium Developer, but when it gives me the "Install Error" I open my Xcode, go to the Organizer, go to my Device, go to the "Applications" part and click the little black "+".

  From there, I browse to the build/iphone/build/release-iphoneos/ folder of my Application and open the ".app" file, and it imports it directly to whichever device I have selected.

  Might be longer than just using Titanium, but it's better than having hours and hours of problems as I get "Install Errors" :P

• I too get this error.

  What i would like is a more meaningful error message. Install error is fairly useless and gives you no idea where to start debugging it.

  I have the correct appid and provisioning profile.
  I went to organiser in xcode and there was no provisioning profile for this app on my phone, so titanium had not put it there. Therefore this error was way before the device stuff somewhere in the signing chaos that is apps and itunes/provisioning profile.

  It would be great to get this fixed, but in the meantime could we have a clue about what is actually happening?

• I have the same problem but my build directory is empty after I click install. The simulator works just fine…

• doubles :S

• I fixed the install error issue by saving all my pngs as PNG-24. I hope this helps!

• I tried fixing all the PNGs and installing directly from the organizer but it still breaks. The organizer does show an error though:

  The application at /Users/username/Projects/TestApp/build/iphone/build/Release-iphoneos/TestApp.app does not specify a CFBundleExecutable

  Any ideas?

• its definitely the PNG files for me as well, especially the Default.png, I fixed it and it works fine :-)

• its definitely the PNG files for me as well, especially the Default.png, I fixed it and it works fine :-)

• Had the same problem. Found out that I had accidentally saved a a Word attachment into the 'images' directory of my project :S I removed it and everything started to work fine.

• what do u guys meant CORRUPT Png File?

• Hi Adnan, Corrupt png files are those which iPhone does not able to compress when try installing your app.
  This error can be found only using X-Code. so open your build project in X-Code if face problem like this.