Comment 0 for bug 870828

I bought a ZTE Blade Android phone, perhaps better known as the Orange San Francisco (but mine is not Orange branded). I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 natty. When you plug in the USB cable and select "turn on USB storage" on the device, one would expect a Nautilus window or something like that to pop up with the SD card contents.

No such thing.

You do get this:

[296664.833061] usb 2-1.1.3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 32
[296664.946009] scsi20 : usb-storage 2-1.1.3:1.0

That's it, nothing more. I have also found a workaround/fix(?) at http://androsapiens.com/viewblog/viewpost/52 : open /lib/udev/rules.d/40-usb_modeswitch.rules and remove or outcomment the following line:

ATTRS{idVendor}=="19d2", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0083", RUN+="usb_modeswitch '%b/%k'"

And restart udev (or the computer). Now it works as expected. I don't know if this breaks any other functionality, I don't even know what this line is for.

Perhaps I should also mention that on the Redmond OS, USB mass storage does work out of the box (without installing drivers).