Iphone – Accessing crash logs on iPhones used for ad hoc distribution

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When using one's own iPhone for development it's easy enough to access any crash logs via XCode->Organizer->Crash Logs.

How does one access crash logs on another person's phone if they don't have it set up for development in XCode, as would likely be the case if you were distributing your app to them via ad hoc distribution for beta testing?

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Two ways:

iTunes syncs all crash reports during a regular sync. They can be found in Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice on a Mac and probably somewhere in %APPDATA% on Windows.
You can use the iPhone Configuration Utility for Mac OS X on any Mac to access the phone's console and crash logs. Note: the iPhone Web Configuration Utility, which is available for Windows and Mac (note the "web" in the name) does not allow this kind of access and only provides a portion of the Configuration Utility's features. Er, no you can't. Xcode provides this facility in the Organizer (from the Window menu), but not iPCU.

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IPhone ad hoc distribution in a team environment

You are expected to use separate development and distribution certificates; you actually set up different configurations for them. The "nightmare" comes when you use several different development certificates. If anyone touches the certificate setting on the Debug configuration, it must thereafter be set manually (which is a pain in the ass, of course).

So no, there's no problem with the Team Agent giving you his distribution certificate and private key (you'll need both). He needs to realize that Apple will hold him responsible for your distribution of packages, though.

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The easiest method is to save the UDIDs of all the binaries you distribute, and compare them to the UDIDs in the crash dumps. UDIDs are different for each build you make.

To retrieve the UDID:

$ dwarfdump -u /path/to/MyApp.app/MyApp
UUID: 864F3D54-F165-3356-3292-2C9C48E97C55 (armv6) /path/to/MyApp.app/MyApp

And compare it to the crashlog:

Binary Images:
    0x1000 -    0x5ffff +MyApp armv6  <864F3D54F165335632922C9C48E97C55> /var/mobile/Applications/5FB3933B-348E-42D7-B99F-76DE284D2148/MyApp.app/MyApp

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