iOS Question Can't pass the "waiting..." phase of install

[kozbot]

So, I've uninstalled and reinstalled the program, I've uninstalled and reinstalled the bridge app, and the layouts are visible with any changes , I can see that fine. It was all working yesterday, and now, nothing... It asks me to install the app, I agree and then it sits there waiting forever, then times out... Oh, and I've also changed the time out time to 120, AND checked that it's in 32 bit mode... but nothing has changed.
Any ideas? I'm really starting to get the grumps.

Thanks.

 

[JonPM]

What version are you using? I believe 2.3b has resolved similar issues

 

[kozbot]

Oh, I didn't get an email about an update. Where do I find it?

EDIT: I realise now that I only got updates for 2 months... Would've been nice if I had received an email or something that my update period had ended, in any case, I need to purchase again I guess... sigh... Thanks for the help JonPM.

 

[Erel]

I don't think that it is related to the version.

Are you using a local builder or the hosted builder?

How do you see that it times out?

 

[kozbot]

I'm guessing actually. I'm using the hosted builder. The program drops out of debug mode. It doesn't install on the phone, and it just says waiting. Then it becomes the icon, but doesn't actually do anything. When I click on the icon, it says "waiting for IDE to connect...". The IP is right, but it's just not installing.

Even after I delete the app from the phone and try again, it does the same thing. I just bought the 2 year updates thing, but I got the same version 2.00 in the email that I had before... I don't know if I did something wrong... It was working yesterday... I dunno...

 

[Erel]

1. Try to uninstall the existing app from the device.
2. If it doesn't help try to restart the device.

I can send you v2.30 beta link if you like. Though I don't think that it is related here.

 

[sorex]

sometimes you really need to close the bridge to make it deploy correctly. (double tap the button and swipe away the B4i bridge screenshot to above)

Edit: don't forget to reopen it again

 

[kozbot]

OK, so It's a new day in Australia, and I was hoping it was just being temperamental, but it wasn't. I don't understand it. I uninstalled the bridge, and reinstalled. I uninstalled the app, cos I realise sometimes that needs to happen. I've restarted the device and did it all over again. I even set up my own wifi network at work to see if it was the slow internet or whatever at work, but that didn't work either. I have no clue what is going on, it just keeps saying "Trying to connect to IDE" and that's it.

Erel, if you could please send that v2.30 beta, I'll give it a shot. I agree with you that it's not the version, but I honestly can't think of anything else that would be an issue that I haven't already looked at.

Do you think, that my IP might be blocked from the hosted server because I've requested the build too many times, so that's why it won't download and install to the phone? Does that happen? I'm just guessing.

 

[kozbot]

IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know how or why, but it worked!!!! Thanks everyone for the help. I don't know what it was, but it's working now, so I'm not gonna complain.

 

[cirollo]

same problem for me till this morning!

the bridge is connected, I receive the question about installing app....then "waiting..." on the app icon and nothing happens!!!

I've also restarted the device....(iPad mini2 and b4i 2.31 on local mac builder)

compilation ends successfully
08:26:18| Compilation time: 3273, cirollo, queue: 0, success: true

sometimes it takes much time to end installing but when I launch the app it stucks on
"waiting for IDE to connect..."

please help!!

ciro

 

[Erel]

Try to renew the certificate and provision file.

 

[sorex]

I'm having a simular problem.

A week or 2 ago I renewed the certificates and could compile 'n run apps again on my iphone with my laptop.

Today I try to do the same on this desktop pc with the updated keys/certs and it compiles fine but when it installs I see that clock like animation and it stops at 1 o'clock
and a dialogue to select Done or Retry.

The dev certificate is still valid till 2017 so that's not the problem.

Anyone having an idea about this?

 

[sorex]

I recreated the keystore, developtment cert, distribution cert, development provisioning profile, distribution provision profile.

And I can't even get the bridge installed on my phone.

 

[sorex]

@Erel , do you have any logging on your servers to verify that my bridge compile succeeded without errors?

 

[Erel]

If there was no error message in the compilation window then it compiled successfully.

If you have another device then try to install it on the second device.

 

[sorex]

I found the problem.

My project had these

#If DEBUG
   #CertificateFile: ios_development.cer
   #ProvisionFile: Development.mobileprovision
#END IF

#If RELEASE
    #CertificateFile: ios_distribution.cer
    #ProvisionFile: general_distribution.mobileprovision    
#END IF

conditions which prevented to create a working bridge for some reason altho it didn't give any errors.

when I create a new empty project and tried to build the bridge it was giving an error that there were more than one provisioning profile and certificate.

I moved everything exept the development cert & provision and rebuilt.

That version installed fine on my phone and so does the app I compile with B4i.

I'll post this into the tutorial aswell just in case someone else is pulling his hair out to get this fixed.

 

[sorex]

things got even more weird.

when I tested it on my laptop (the machine it worked on after renewing certs) yesterday everything still installed fine.

then this morning I thought about the fact that it was still pointing to the program files\anywaresoftware\b4i\keys folder instead of the dropbox one with the new keystore/certs/provisions.

when I changed it to the dropbox folder, closed and reopened B4i and copiled my project it still installed fine.

all of this doesn't make sense but it's working and that's the most important for me