Resources folder in alloy, works on simulator, doesn't work on device

Background

I published version 1 of my app before Alloy was released, and I am now preparing to publish an update which is the entire app rewritten using Alloy.

in the first version of the app I used an sqlite database to track the reports submitted by the user. In the Alloy version of the app I am storing this information in a collection (which is again stored with sqlite).

Problem

What I want to do is: Get every record from the old .sqlite database (which was stored in Resources / models) and store them as models in my Alloy collection.

This works fine in the simulator. I have tried it a few times, and it works no worries. But It doesn't work on my iPhone. The code that causes the error is::

var databasePath = '/models/app_data.sqlite',
          databaseName  = 'databaseName';
 
    //check for previous reports
    var db = Ti.Database.install(databasePath, databaseName);  
 
    db.execute('SELECT * FROM savedRecords');

Summary

If I install the first version of my app on my iPhone this same code still works fine.

If I run this code in my alloy app in the simulator it works fine.

If I run this code in my alloy app on my device is fails and gives the error "db is not an Object"

I am testing with an iPhone 3GS running iOS 6 Alloy 1.1.3 Titanium 3.1.1

Any help would be greatly appreciated.