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In-house app: Unable to download app - A valid provisioning profile for this executable was not found

I have a very tricky problem installing a .ipa (in-house distribution). Only on one iPad I cannot install this ipa - while it works in at least other 5 devices - and when I try to install it on that device I get an error "Unable to download app".

Reading the device log while installing I can read:

MICodeSigningVerifier _validateSignatureAndCopyInfoForURL:withOptions:error:]: 147: Failed to verify code signature of

Trying to install the ipa on the iPad directly with Xcode i get the error:

A valid provisioning profile for this executable was not found enter image description here

The installation of the ipa through an html page with .plist (in https) works well for all the other devices. I tried also to update iOS to last version (10.3) and after that I tried to reset the device, but nothing changed.

Solution

  • Solved in 7 steps:

    • registered the device's UDID on the Apple developer portal
    • added the device to the development provisioning profile
    • downloaded the updated provisioning profile on XCode
    • compiled again the .ipa
    • installed the .ipa on the device using Xcode
    • authorized the developer
    • installed the original .ipa from the html page => it worked

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