Use my developer iPod as ad hoc also?

[Griffin]

I have an iPod Touch on which I have installed a few of my apps. I have yet to send any of these apps to friends/associates for testing. As my friends are not particularly tech savvy, I want to make sure I can explain the procedure clearly to them, and resolve any questions or problems they may encounter. The instructions look fairly easy and straight forward, but, I do tech support for a living, and have discovered that rarely are things like this as easy and fool proof as promised. Because my one and only touch is my development platform, I don't have a seperate iPod/iPhone to run through the Ad Hoc procedure.

I recently decided that a 16GB iPod Touch was not big enough, and returned it to the store and replaced it with a 32GB touch. When I got it home, and restored my stuff to it, I realized that it has a different UDID from my old one, and so I could now set it up as an additional (non-development) device, designate it as an Ad Hoc device. I created the necessary profiles and went through the process, and it (mostly) went okay, and I definitely learned a few things about setting up an Ad Hoc device. (And I had some issues, but that's the subject of a different post.) So far so good.

But I want to eventually set this back up as a Development device, and still want to be able to use it as an Ad hoc device for my apps, just to be able to walk through my beta testers through the process, if necessary. Before I re-provision it as my development device, is there a way to use it as both? I imagine i can delete the device ID and recreate it, and create new a profile, etc., etc. but, will it work as both concurrently?

I am asking now, before I switch it back to a dev device, to see if there is anything special I should do in the process.

I would appreciate any advice from developers out there who have only one device. Do you use it strictly as a dev device, or can it be both?

Thanks,

Griffin

[tawpie]

Yes, I use my (1 and only) iPhone both as a dev device and as an adHoc. All I did was add the mobileprovision file to my phone as I would ask my adHoc users to do (via iTunes) and voila, it works great!

[richiepc3]

If you need any beta testers i could help you out, I am particularly tech savvy and i have beta tested in the past.


Shoot me an e-mail at Rcortese3@sbcglobal.net if you need someone.