New package not yet registered with the system. Error on a real phone

Question

I am working on an Android project in Eclipse and debugging / testing using my HTC Desire Z. I was coding away building a menu for my app when I started getting this error which is preventing me from continuing. Lots of people have had this error but none of the solutions that I found have worked for me. I tried cleaning and rebuilding the project, manually uninstalling the app from my phone, and renaming the domain in the manifest file. For people using an emulator they talked about deleting the data file but I'm not sure what this translates to when using a real phone.

Here is the console when I try to build:

[2011-08-09 06:57:13 - GreenThumbs] Android Launch! [2011-08-09 06:57:13 - GreenThumbs] adb is running normally. [2011-08-09 06:57:13 - GreenThumbs] Performing com.hernblog.GreenThumbs.GreenThumbs activity launch [2011-08-09 06:57:13 - GreenThumbs] Automatic Target Mode: using device 'HT0ANRV03417' [2011-08-09 06:57:13 - GreenThumbs] Uploading GreenThumbs.apk onto device 'HT0ANRV03417' [2011-08-09 06:57:13 - GreenThumbs] Installing GreenThumbs.apk... [2011-08-09 06:57:16 - GreenThumbs] Success! [2011-08-09 06:57:17 - GreenThumbs] Starting activity com.hernblog.GreenThumbs.GreenThumbs on device HT0ANRV03417 [2011-08-09 06:57:19 - GreenThumbs] New package not yet registered with the system. Waiting 3 seconds before next attempt. [2011-08-09 06:57:22 - GreenThumbs] Starting activity com.hernblog.GreenThumbs.GreenThumbs on device HT0ANRV03417 [2011-08-09 06:57:23 - GreenThumbs] New package not yet registered with the system. Waiting 3 seconds before next attempt. [2011-08-09 06:57:23 - GreenThumbs] ActivityManager: Error: Activity class {com.hernblog.GreenThumbs/com.hernblog.GreenThumbs.GreenThumbs} does not exist. [2011-08-09 06:57:26 - GreenThumbs] Starting activity com.hernblog.GreenThumbs.GreenThumbs on device HT0ANRV03417 [2011-08-09 06:57:27 - GreenThumbs] New package not yet registered with the system. Waiting 3 seconds before next attempt. [2011-08-09 06:57:30 - GreenThumbs] Starting activity com.hernblog.GreenThumbs.GreenThumbs on device HT0ANRV03417 [2011-08-09 06:57:30 - GreenThumbs] New package not yet registered with the system. Waiting 3 seconds before next attempt. [2011-08-09 06:57:33 - GreenThumbs] Starting activity com.hernblog.GreenThumbs.GreenThumbs on device HT0ANRV03417 [2011-08-09 06:57:34 - GreenThumbs] ActivityManager: Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] cmp=com.hernblog.GreenThumbs/.GreenThumbs } [2011-08-09 06:57:34 - GreenThumbs] ActivityManager: Error type 3 [2011-08-09 06:57:34 - GreenThumbs] ActivityManager: Error: Activity class {com.hernblog.GreenThumbs/com.hernblog.GreenThumbs.GreenThumbs} does not exist. 

And here is my manifest file:

?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"   package="com.hernblog.GreenThumbs"   android:versionCode="1"   android:versionName="1.0">  <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" />  <application>    <uses-library android:name="android.test.runner" /> </application> <instrumentation android:name="android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner"        android:targetPackage="com.hernblog.Green.Thumbs" android:label="GreenThumbs Tests" />  <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">          <activity android:name="GreenThumbs"                    android:label="@string/app_name"                   android:screenOrientation="landscape">              <intent-filter>                  <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />                  <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />              </intent-filter>          </activity>  </application> </manifest> 

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Answer 1

I too had this problem immediately after changing the package name of my app (prepping it for Android Market). In Eclipse do a Project > Clean... , then turn off Build-Automatically so you can Build-All.

Answer 2

I got this error after renaming my project package. I fixed it by doing a clean in Eclipse. Then a full rebuild. After that pressing F11 launched the application on the device. (I also uninstalled the application from the device before that but I don't think that was the problem).