Xcode-installing app to device takes a long time, suddenly

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Hello, I have been building my app to my ios 4 device quite regularly. I have the latest unity, a fairly recent version of xcode. After months of building to my ios device, yesterday the install part of the xcode build process starting taking over 10 minutes. It used to take maybe 10 seconds. When this occurs I can still click the menus in xcode just fine. I have rebooted my mac, rebooted my ios device, cleared the open apps on my ios device, nothing helps.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas?

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I have some more info on this:
it actually does install in a short amount of time but xcode says that it is still installing the app when it has already installed the app. Xcode never launches the app, it just stays “stuck”. I can manually launch the game from my ios device and the app is indeed updated. Since Xcode is hanging, I cannot do anything but quit Xcode at which time it tells me that the device is busy. I quit anyways, since I have no other option.

So it appears that my real problem is that Xcode installs the app but no longer launches the app after install. The “Tasks” button is greyed out, doing a “Clean” and “Clean All Targets” does not help. Rebooting does not help.

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try restarting the device, could be very well an “overload of debug demons” and other things from piling up long enough.

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Hi, I appreciate the help. I had already tried rebooting my mac, rebooting my ios device, cleared the open apps on my ios device, nothing helps. Oddly, if do a File>Build Settings…>Build And Run it tries to run the simulator in Xcode. But if I do a File>Build Run it launches Xcode and builds to the device. In any case it still thinks the app is installing and hangs there.

Oh, I have also removed the app from my device completely, and replaced the build folder. Did I miss trying anything?

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I made an account just to reply to this thread because I had this annoying problem and found a solution that worked for me. I re-synced it to iTunes and made sure the date and time were correct (they were very off). I then relaunched xcode and it began installing in around 10 seconds again.