I got interested in making apps for Samsung wearables, and found some info about it. I came across some tutorials and started tinkering with a sample app. I have a physical device (Samsung Gear S3 Frontier SM-R760 Tizen 4.0.0.7 One UI Watch 1.5) and succesfully followed every step to connect my watch. I had some problems, but after some more troubleshooting I finally installed the app. After that I changed some things, started playing with the code, to see what can I do, and to familiarize myself with the options. To my suprise I didn't break anything, it worked, I could install it again and it ran. Then next day when I wanted to install it again from Visual Studio 2019, I couldn't. I checked everything I had problems with earlier, the device is connected (I verified with the Device Manager and the sdb command prompt), my Samsung certificate is valid, the time is right, I tried other WiFi connections, tried with my phone connected/disconnected, tried with Visual Studio, tried directly with sdb install. Nothing worked.
If I try Visual Studio 2019 a window pops up with a progress bar saying Installing... and it ends every time at 46%, then comes the Initializing debugger... window, which never stops "loading"
If I try sdb install this is the output: ("path" is used instead of the actual path to tpk)
C:\Tizen\tools>sdb install "path"\org.tizen.example.XStopWatch-1.0.0.tpk
WARNING: Your data are to be sent over an unencrypted connection and could be read by others.
pushed org.tizen.example.XStopWatch-1.0.0.tpk 100% 649KB 0KB/s
1 file(s) pushed. 0 file(s) skipped.
"path"\org.tizen.example.XStopWatch-1.0.0.tpk 877KB/s (665033 bytes in 0.739s)
path is /home/owner/share/tmp/sdk_tools/org.tizen.example.XStopWatch-1.0.0.tpk
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[start] val[install]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[install_percent] val[9]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[install_percent] val[12]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[install_percent] val[15]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[install_percent] val[18]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[install_percent] val[21]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[install_percent] val[25]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[install_percent] val[28]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[install_percent] val[31]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[install_percent] val[34]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[install_percent] val[37]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[install_percent] val[40]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[install_percent] val[43]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[install_percent] val[46]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[error] val[-16]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[org.tizen.example.XStopWatch] key[end] val[fail]
processing result : Application directory error [-16] failed
spend time for pkgcmd is [2012]ms
I tried to search for error -16, but with no luck
Update
It seems that only this project is faulty, if I try to install something else, that works
Not only that, but if I try to install something with the same name, (or package name I guess), it fails in the same way.
Hope this new info helps
Solves the problem if you change the Application ID and Package name to something else, not sure if you can install anything from now on with the name and ID of the original app causing this issue
Change:
Change in tizen-manifest.xml