[android-developers] Re: Application could not be installed on this phone?

2009-10-22 Thread Richard Schilling
The problem appears to be the fact that the application on the phone already was signed with a different certificate than the one replacing it. There's nothing in the logs I'm seeing that indicate this. Another developer I work with had to guess that this was the problem. Richard On Oct 22, 1

[android-developers] Re: Application could not be installed on this phone?

2009-10-22 Thread Richard Schilling
I'm not getting much from DDMS. Perhaps the information I need is in dumpstate output? If there's some clue here I'm not seeing. What should I be looking for? The error on the screen is "Nomad could not be installed on this phone." Here's the information about the package that is being upgrad

[android-developers] Re: Application could not be installed on this phone?

2009-10-14 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Richard Schilling < richard.rootwirel...@gmail.com> wrote: > What I would like to do is submit a patch that provides more verbose > information about why an install fails (e.g. certificate is invalid). > There is already a fair amount of stuff printed in the log

[android-developers] Re: Application could not be installed on this phone?

2009-10-14 Thread Richard Schilling
Had a request from someone to elaborate on what I did to fix this. This issue started showing up when I started building with the 1.6 SDK. When I signed the application with a new certificate, the problem went away. Here's what I did: 1. created a new certificate using the instructions on this

[android-developers] Re: Application could not be installed on this phone?

2009-10-12 Thread Richard Schilling
Oh, the android should be upgrading the old application properly, so uninstalling should not be necessary. This is an upgrade. Richard On Oct 12, 11:37 am, Richard Schilling wrote: > The issue seems to be with the certificate used to sign the > application.  It works now. > > What I would lik

[android-developers] Re: Application could not be installed on this phone?

2009-10-12 Thread Richard Schilling
The issue seems to be with the certificate used to sign the application. It works now. What I would like to do is submit a patch that provides more verbose information about why an install fails (e.g. certificate is invalid). Looking into PackageInstaller to see what I can find. Richard On O

[android-developers] Re: Application could not be installed on this phone?

2009-10-12 Thread nEx.Software
Obvious question alert: Did you remove any old version you might have had had installed before trying to install the new one? On Oct 12, 10:28 am, Richard Schilling wrote: > I am seeing this now too.  Just upgraded the phone to 1.6.  DDMS > doesn't tell me squat. > > Anyone? > > Richard Schillin

[android-developers] Re: Application could not be installed on this phone?

2009-10-12 Thread Richard Schilling
I am seeing this now too. Just upgraded the phone to 1.6. DDMS doesn't tell me squat. Anyone? Richard Schilling Mobile Operating System Engineer Root Wireless, Inc. On Aug 14, 8:32 pm, dougx wrote: > I just rebuilt an application to use some new assets, and now I get > this message on my ph