iTunes Sync failed to install

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iTunes Sync failed to install

Hi! I've recently updated to iOS 5 (well, by recently I mean 5 hours ago) and I've encountered issues not fatal but has a big impact on my part.

I encountered this error message when my iPod's restoring:

iTunes Sync <app name here> failed to install

A number of apps weren't successfully installed. I tried restoring for a number of times but the results were the same.

Though, I tried downloading the app via the Appstore on my iPod and it worked. The app was successfully installed and can be ran again.

So then, I tried transferring the purchase to my library to copy the IPA to my PC. Then removed the app from my iPod. Then tried to install again the app from iTunes (this time, I'm trying to use the IPA I downloaded via my iPod; the one that finally worked). But to no avail. The IPA that's working on my iPod didn't install successfully from iTunes.

Can you advise on how to fix this. As much as possible, I'm trying to keep all my downloads via iTunes but this incident is not allowing me to.

If you need more details, below is the list of the apps that aren't being successfully installed via iTunes: (all IPA's are up to date as of Oct. 14, 2011)

- Battleheart

- Castle Empire

- Death Rally

- Infinity Blade

- Chaos Rings

- Dead Space

- Dungeon Hunter 2

- Merriam-Webster Dictionary

- Words With Friends

- N.O.V.A. 2

I'm using iTunes 10.5 / iOS 5. My device is an iPod touch 4th gen black 32 GB

iPod touch, iOS 5

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 7:41 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 4, 2011 8:08 AM in response to teng789

Currently having a similar problem... Purchased and downloaded Infinity Blade 2 via iTunes but it gives me an error of failed to install if I try to sync it to my iPhone...

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Answer 2

Jan 8, 2012 12:05 PM in response to teng789

I have a similar problem. I had to replace my phone and can't het shift worker to sunc to my new phone. It just keeps saying failed to intsall. Other paid apps have synced fine.

Amy ideas?

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teng789 Author

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Jan 10, 2012 8:56 AM in response to teng789

Well, what I'm doing now (as a work around and not to waste time also) is to download any app directly into the device and just sync it to my iTunes (just to have iTunes a copy of the IPA file).

A bit of a hassle though.

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remitdlo

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May 5, 2012 11:26 AM in response to teng789

I am having the same or similar problem, wrote a simple program with xcode and it runs and loads to the iPad but when I creat the .ipa and pass it to iTunes it transfer to iPad. When transferring to iPad I get "iTunes Sync 'app name here' Failed to install. Sent to Apple as Bug # 11060939. Apple has had me update all, which I did and run thru it again and have the same results.

At this point I am wondering if it could be a setting in xcode which is also at the current level.

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Answer 5

Apr 4, 2013 2:11 AM in response to teng789

Instead of downloading the app from iTunes App Store, download the app from your device's App Store. This will help you 100% . I have downloaded infinity blade 2 and batman arkham city lockdown via iTunes and when I sync apps its says 'failed to install'. But later on I have downloaded and installed the same apps from device's App Store and the apps works fine . To all who are facing this problem should download apps from device instead of pc .

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