Comment 21 for bug 755342

Only as an update: As of today, it still doesn't work out of the box.
The workaround fixes it.

Allow me a bit of comment that sounds sarcastic, and yet bugs me as an oldtimer with 20 years on Linux: I always advocate FOSS. Should someone hit this snag, how can I honestly defend this shortcoming? Asking Aunt Tilly to search Google and end with her using the CL to vi a parameter in a file?
Could I blame her on going back to the monopolist?

I would defend my beloved Linux, were she the first to encounter this. Alas, it has been around for > 5 years.
And I am afraid, not only this particular mobile phone will simply not work as mass storage.