Possible data point: with my BlackBerry Bold 9700, it was detected exactly ONCE, after I ran an XP VM win VirtualBox (PUEL), passed USB through, and mounted the device in Windows XP. When I shut down the XP VM, Ubuntu detected the device and mounted it normally. After unplugging, though, it doesn't get detected on replugging, and I can't reproduce this now. I can continue to mount it in the XP VM, but I hate starting Windows up just to copy some files to a device.
Possible data point: with my BlackBerry Bold 9700, it was detected exactly ONCE, after I ran an XP VM win VirtualBox (PUEL), passed USB through, and mounted the device in Windows XP. When I shut down the XP VM, Ubuntu detected the device and mounted it normally. After unplugging, though, it doesn't get detected on replugging, and I can't reproduce this now. I can continue to mount it in the XP VM, but I hate starting Windows up just to copy some files to a device.
Suggestion--it might be this problem: http:// ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?t=1366021
I can't try the fix suggested there since 10.0.4 doesn't have the files and directories mentioned in the article.