Comment 5 for bug 368053

On Kubuntu Karmic 9.10 I have the same problem with an Sony Ericsson K750i mobile phone.

Here is what I did to get around the problem:

1. sudo apt-get install usbmount pmount

2. Create /etc/udev/rules.d/75-mobile-phone.rules with this content:

SUBSYSTEM!="usb_device", ACTION!="add", GOTO="mobile_phone_rules_end"

# Sony Ericsson K750i mobile phone
SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fce", SYSFS{idProduct}=="d016", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="0660"

LABEL="mobile_phone_rules_end"

3. Check that dmesg | tail had something like this:

[ 9833.932132] scsi 15:0:0:0: Direct-Access Sony Eri Memory Stick 0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 9833.933302] sd 15:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[ 9833.972064] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] 124416 512-byte logical blocks: (63.7 MB/60.7 MiB)
[ 9833.982224] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[ 9833.982235] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
[ 9833.982242] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 9834.015020] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 9834.015029] sdc: sdc1
[ 9834.055064] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 9834.055076] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk

4. pmount /dev/sdc1 /media/usb0

5. cd /media/usb0

to access the mobile phone as a mass storage device.

6. cd ~/; pumount /media/usb0

to unmount the device.

This workaround was suggested by

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6204815&postcount=13

I do not understand the intricacies of how this works or whether it will always work, but it enabled me to download the images from my mobile phone in Karmic, something that I was able to do in previous releases but not in Karmic.