The entitlements specified...profile. (0xE8008016). Error iOS 4.2

Just putting in my 5 cents here. For me none of the above worked, so I was forced to stress down and actually look at every part of the process with fresh eyes.

In rushing this I forgot that I was trying to install my app on a totally new device.

So my error was that I hadn't updated my provisioning profile by ticking off my new device int the "Devices" section of the provisioning profile setup in the Provisioning Portal.

Apparently not including your device in the provisioning profile also generates this error message.

Delete your provisioning profiles, do a 'Clean All', make sure that your provisioning setting are correct, redownload, and try to run again.

I ran into this problem today and I was pulling my hair out trying to figure it out. Like many people here, it would work if I removed the iCloud options in my entitlement file. When I would go to debug the app with the iCloud options enabled then I would get the 0xe8008016 error. This was right after revoking and regenerating new certificates.

So what solved it for me was to turn on iCloud support for the automatically generated Xcode team profile. Log onto the online provisioning tool, go to App IDs, click on Xcode iOS Wildcard App ID, click on edit, enable iCloud by checking the checkbox, and finally clicking Done. Refresh your profiles in Xcode and then it will start to work.

This makes some sense - when you're debugging it defaults to the team profile and the team profile needs to have iCloud turned on.

In my case, it looks like Xcode (secretly) reset the Scheme. I found that the build configuration for Archive was set to Release instead of distribution one, and after I changed it to the correct one, it worked.

I think it is better to check the Schemes as well as the build settings.