windows phone deployment error DEP0001 : Unexpected Error: -2147009290 ‭

Question

Working on a Windows Phone 10 app and ran it from Visual Studio on my ARM (Lumia 950) device several times. Then an OS update came in for my 950 and it soon did a forced reboot;

Answer 1

Figured it out. I had deleted a splash screen image but left a reference to it in the package.manifest so it was looking for when launching on the phone. When I added back the splash screen it deployed and ran successfully.