Testflight error: This build doesn't support iPhone 5c GSM. Ask the developers to support your device

Question

Im new to iphone development. I have created new phonegap app and installed couple of plugins. Im using testflight.com to install and test apps on devices. Last time i have installed facebook connect plugin and made required settings. App working fine on xcode simulators and created new archive. There is no error while uploading on testflight.com.

but when i tried to install on my registered device, i got this error in safari.

Testflight error: This build doesn't support iPhone 5c GSM. Ask the developers to support your device

I googled this message but couldn't get any appropriate answer.

Thanks for your time and help

Answer 1

Have had the same issue a few times, saying not compatible iPhone 4, 4S etc, though this was fixed when I simply archived the app with 'iOS Device' selected rather than archiving for a device that's plugged in at the time. Archiving for a device that's plugged in seemed to pick up its architecture build, which if it is a newer device that is being run on may cause this 'incompatible' issue with older devices.

By archiving with simply 'iOS device' option selected this solved the issue. (contrary to what I initially thought, archiving doesn't need to be with an actual device connected, just as long as it's not the simulator.)

Hope this helps,

cheers Jim.

Answer 2

When you archive your app in Xcode, you are probably not building it for all the architectures needed (armv7 for iPhone 5C). Try changing the build setting for Build Active Architectures Only as described in this answer.