iOS Simulator failed to install the application

Question

I have created a Cordova 2.1.0 app, It ran fine for the first 2-3 times. But now when I am trying to run it through terminal it is giving me the following error.I didn\'t ch

Answer 1

I tried everything mentioned above and nothing worked. My problem was iOS 7 specific. I was finally able to resolve the issue by assigning a non-empty value to Bundle versions string, short (CFBundleShortVersionString) in the -Info.plist file. Looks like iOS 7 doesn't like an empty value for the build number. I had a script that auto increments the bundle number by 1 every time I build the project so this field was empty. I just assigned a dummy value there to get it working.

Answer 2

Unfortunately none of these solutions solved my problem. I did everything, even restarting my mac but it was still failing. What actually did solve my problem was to go to the Organizer and delete the Derived Data and Snapshots.

Answer 3

Solved here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16279286/1927253

I copied a folder into XCode 4.6.2 with the name "Resources". When XCode asked, I created the folder references for any added folders.

Every time I did this, I would have to goto the Derived applications directory, and delete the build directory for my project to get it working again.

Solution: Do not copy a folder by reference into XCode with the name "Resources". Rename it to something else other than Resources.

Very annoying error.

Answer 4

What worked for me was to simply delete an old version of the app, which was made in a prior version of Xcode (likely 4, now running 5) from the simulator (tap-hold, jiggle, x).

Answer 5

My solution is:

From menu, iOS Simulator, Reset Content and Settings. Close XCode 5.0: close project and close it from Dock and re-open the project and launch again, like in Windows :)

Answer 6

I tried ALL these things and more including reinstalling Xcode 5 and nuking every xcode and simulator preference/application support file with no luck.

Then for the hell of it, I CHANGED my short bundle version string (it already had a value, it was not empty), and it fired right up.

3 hours gone but yeah