IOS 7 simulator doesn't work at all

Question

I've got annoying problem with IOS Simulator at Xcode 5. It doesn't work at all. I've been searching for a week around different forums and there are a lot of variants of solving this problem. But nothing could help me. I reseted the simulators content and settings, deleted some files connected to simulator, reinstalled Xcode, but everything is hopeless. My Simulator shows black screen and debuger says:

iPhone Simulator[573] : Could not lookup service com.apple.iphonesimulator.host_support: 3

iPhone Simulator[573] : Unable to update keyboard layout because we were unable to connect to the host_support mach service.

iPhone Simulator[573] : Could not lookup service com.apple.iphonesimulator.bridge: 3

iPhone Simulator[573] : Error communicating with SimulatorBridge: NSObjectNotAvailableException - Unable to connect to SimulatorBridge

There is absolutely the same problem here, but there is no proper answer: xcode5 iOS Simulator failed to install the application

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Here is what I would do, it may not help.

1. Run TimeMachine, you really need an up-to-date backup. Make sure it ran successfully.

2. Make sure you are running 10.9.2.

3. Delete Xcode by dragging it from the Applications folder to the trash

4. Delete ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator Empty the trash.

5. Delete ~/Library/Developer/Xcode (this has some user profile things in it, the TM backup will have a copy if needed later)

6. Make sure there is no other Xcode or Simulator on the computer, Spotlight is a good place to start. Delete anything found and empty the trash.

7. Empty the trash.

8. Reboot

9. Install Xcode 5.0.2 from the AppStore.