SonyEricsson M600i USB File mode enabler

January 10th, 2007 · 113 Comments

Added 2008-07-29: I just noticed that Mark/Space released Missing Sync for Symbian today. I don’t use my M600i anymore (I bought an iPhone instead), so I haven’t tried it, but this allows for syncing your Symbian phone and your Mac, including syncing files. I would suggest that you take a look at it.

It seems that the SonyEricsson M600i identifies itself as a Communications device. This causes Mac OS X not to mount it. This code-less kext makes Mac OS X recognize the M600i, and according to success reports, the P990i (W950 supposedly works out of the box), as a Composite unit, thus making Mac OS X mount the mass storage device.

Some questions answered (yes, I made up some of these):

Q: I only see the memory card
A: Yeah, that’s the way the phone works.

Q: It doesn’t work.
A: Tough luck. But do verify that the phone is in File transfer mode, not Phone mode (check Control Panel->Connections->USB on the phone). If it still doesn’t work, I don’t really know what might be wrong. You could however post a comment here.

Q: It makes some other stuff not work.
A: Definitely tough luck. However, let’s just say like this, the only thing that I see is reasonable to break is support for other cell phones from Sony Ericsson. And if it actually does, please contact me (though a comment here).

Q: How do I remove the darned thing?
A: First of all, be careful when you do this. You don’t want to delete the wrong files when you do this. I take no responsibility for what you do or what might happen when you do it, or anything else for that matter. You have been warned. You can remove this by deleting /System/Library/Extensions/M600USBFileEnabler.kext

Got other questions? Comment.

To reiterate. I take no responsibility for anything with this file. Use this at your own risk. For all I know your phone and computer might explode and your house might burn down from using this. It does work for me, but that is no guarantee that it will work for you. Download this only if you understand that I take no responsibility what so ever.

Here’s the file: M600USBFileEnabler.zip

Tags: Technology

113 responses so far ↓

1 Bogg // Jan 11, 2007 at 1:03

Thanks, now i’m homeless…

How do we solve this? Can I stay at your place for a while?
2 Magnus Nordlander // Jan 11, 2007 at 1:23

Sorry, I take no responsibility for that

Hope you liked the driver however
3 Anders Milton // Jan 11, 2007 at 9:24

W950i works out-of-the-box – no kext needed.
4 Magnus Nordlander // Jan 11, 2007 at 9:42

Anders: Thanks for the info, I’ve updated the text to reflect this.
5 Per Ejeklint // Jan 11, 2007 at 9:47

Sorry, no success for me on MBP C2D, nothing shows up whatever I try…
6 Magnus Nordlander // Jan 11, 2007 at 10:01

Per: Is it using a M600i? Have you restarted your computer after the installation, or otherwise loaded the kext? Is the phone in file transfer mode?

If all of those are true, and you have Xcode installed, you could always contact me using some IM protocol (there’s a bunch of addresses on the About Me page), and we can try to figure out what’s wrong.
7 Jean Rene Denliker // Jan 11, 2007 at 16:11

What’s about a plugin ISync 2.3 for the SE M600i ?
8 Magnus Nordlander // Jan 11, 2007 at 16:34

Sadly, that is not as easy to do as this. iSync does not yet have support for the new method of connections for synchronization used in the UIQ3 units.

The way I see it, there are basically two options in handling this. The first is to wait for Apple to fix this. My guess would be that it will be fixed in either an update to Tiger or Leopard. The other option is to make an application similar to the one used for synchronization of PocketPCs and Macs. That is however not an easy task, and I am sure that anyone capable of creating such an application would be awaiting the release of Leopard, to make sure that the all work they have done will not be redundant once Leopard is released.
9 Eric // Jan 11, 2007 at 18:34

Yeh…….. M600USBFileEnabler works fine for me :

Mac OS 10.4.8 French P990i R7

Thanks a lot !

In the mem I find some extra files :

CDAInfo.txt MEMSTICK.IND MemStickInfo.txt

Could we remove them without damage ? Thx Eric
10 Magnus Nordlander // Jan 11, 2007 at 18:54

From what I’ve read those are files that should be on every memory stick, and I don’t know what happens if you remove them. You could of course try to remove them, but I for one would not.

If you don’t want them showing up in the Finder, I think you can use the .hidden-method to hide them from the finder, and then set the FAT-attribute of that file to be hidden as well. However I do not know how to set FAT-attributes in OS X.
11 lopetz // Jan 13, 2007 at 11:01

this is just what i waited for. finally can mount my P990i on the mac desktop. it’s great to have a connection to the memorycard without using slow bluetooth or taking out the memorycard for a cardreader. big big thanks!
12 Freeware USB driver to mount Sony Ericsson P990/M600 as Mass Storage Disk Drive device on Mac OS X - Tech[dot]Blog - All about Computers, Mobiles and The Internet // Jan 15, 2007 at 0:03

[...] Note: The author has made this driver available on a “As is where is” basis without accepting any risk/responsibilty for anything that happens to your mobile phone/computer. Visit the author’s homepage for more details. [...]
13 Petit soft utile. at YaLB // Jan 15, 2007 at 18:57

[...] Si vous êtes l’heureux possesseur et d’un Mac et d’un Sony Ericsson P990i, vous aurez sûrement remarqué que lorsque vous branchez le P990 à votre Mac, la memory stick ne monte pas sur le bureau et c’est assez genant pour le transfert de fichiers vers/de votre téléphone. Grace à ce petit logiciel ce problème passe aux oubliettes. [...]
14 Hans-Jochen Muellensiefen // Jan 15, 2007 at 22:22

Thanks a lot. Memorycard of P990i can be mounted on MAC-Desktop… with a USB-Cable I could drag and drop different things using File Transfer Mode…

AND: I could install Navicore Personal 2007, a Mobile-Navigation-Software, from the Navicore-CD over Virtual PC 7.0.2 / Windows 2000 Professional ServicePack 4 (after Formatting the MemoryCard) on P990i of SE. It’s running now…

Thanks a lot (I told you in the beginning… HJM
15 Mario Tomic // Jan 15, 2007 at 23:55

One more P990 successfully connected as a mass storage to Mac!

Tanks a lot!

P.S. I was reffered here by http://mobile.feisar.com/uiq3.html
16 Thorsten L // Jan 17, 2007 at 3:31

I also was successfull in connecting the P990 as mass storage. Thanks for a great job. Thorsten
17 thomas // Jan 17, 2007 at 19:22

Works fine. Thank you. OS X 10.4.8 / M600i

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18 M3rl1n0 // Jan 19, 2007 at 12:21

This is great with P990 and Mac Os X 10.4.8! thanks.
19 Loc // Jan 19, 2007 at 16:11

Works fine. Thank you. OSX 10.4.8 / M600i Dum question, how do I put the vcf card to my phone book then?
20 Magnus Nordlander // Jan 19, 2007 at 20:02

I would think that you can import a vcf file by clicking it in the file manager?
21 Parasit // Jan 19, 2007 at 20:08

With p990i is great. Wonderful. I love you *****heheh
22 Andy // Jan 21, 2007 at 1:41

Wow, it’s great! Thanks a lot. I’ve finally managed to mount my M600i to the Core 2 Macbook Pro.
23 Walter // Jan 24, 2007 at 7:28

Works just fine with my SE P990i! The first time I was able to connect the phone to my iMac! Thanks a lot! Now only backup the phone is an open issue, it seams not possible to do this to the Memory Stick and save this from there to the iMac.
24 Christopher // Jan 25, 2007 at 6:50

Works fine for me. At long last. Thanks alot
25 Geerten Vuister // Jan 29, 2007 at 0:13

Works fine with my M600i and PowerBook G4/1G, OSX 10.4.8. Thanks a lot; I’d been looking for a solution as it was a big disappointment at first. No, iSync support, no USB transfer. At least the last issue is now solved.
26 Donald // Jan 30, 2007 at 12:10

Thanks – this plus SyncTunes (http://www.nesfield.co.uk/synctunes/) was just what I needed to get my music and podcasts onto my P990
27 Pär // Jan 31, 2007 at 16:45

Thanks It works witout any problems that i can see, before i had to use windowa in parraleldesk.. to synk sr-podcast to the fon Have anyone read about ore have any idea how to share the airport internet over bluetooth to the phone?
28 Nils // Feb 5, 2007 at 23:08

thanks a lot!

now at least USB access to the Memory Stick of my p990i works fine, mounted instantly! (MacBook Pro MA610, 15.4″, 2.33 GHz, MacOS 10.4.8)

Any known way of accessing the internal storage via USB?

If only the whole setup ran more reliably (many hangs and crashes) and would really sync over either USB, IrDA or, preferably, Bluetooth with my Mac(s).

(P990i, german retail version, unbranded, Phone=CXC162037 R7A001, Bluetooth=CXC162058 R4F01, Organizer=CXC162036 R3B01, CDA=CDA162008/87 R3A01)
29 william // Feb 6, 2007 at 16:30

Downloaded and installed your M600Filenabler … the system restarted but I don’t have a clue what to do next … I plug my P990 via USB to my MacBook Pro but I don’t see it mounting on my computer. Any pointers will be appreciated
30 Magnus Nordlander // Feb 6, 2007 at 16:37

Which version of Mac OS X are you running?
31 william // Feb 6, 2007 at 16:39

I’ve solved it … I was stupid enough to not switch to file transfer mode on my phone … false alarm …

Thank you Magnus Nordlander!
32 P2lab // Feb 9, 2007 at 20:02

Hi,

It seems that it doesn’t work with OS X Panther (10.3.9). Is it correct ? Thanks,

P.
33 Magnus Nordlander // Feb 9, 2007 at 20:20

Well, I haven’t tested it with Panther, and there are no success reports with it, so it is certainly possible that it doesn’t work with Panther. Can someone else verify this?
34 daniel // Feb 10, 2007 at 18:53

Works fine. Thank you. OS X 10.4.8 / M600i
35 Per-Johan Halsli // Feb 15, 2007 at 12:11

I’m not gay but I think I love you!

I bought a p990 and couldn’t transfer music to it if I didn’t use bluetooth. Which is slow solution when you’re gonna transfer a couple of GB’s. After surfing on the web I finally found your site and WOW the phone mounted to the desktop right away.

So thank you Sweden (I guess?)
36 Magnus Nordlander // Feb 15, 2007 at 12:47

Sweden is indeed correct I just blog in english because it gives me a much wider audience. Heck, we even speak mostly english where I live since we have 3 exchange students living here as well.
37 Ed Bouwens // Feb 16, 2007 at 20:21

You made me very happy. Now I can connect my P990i to my Mac and transfer music, movies and pictures easily, instead of taking out the memorycard every single time. Great, absolutely great! Thank you!
38 michele // Feb 17, 2007 at 18:08

Hey genius! You solved my problem. Maybe it’s been easy for you, but now I see the light!! Ciao from Italy! M600i happy user
39 Axel Råberg // Feb 24, 2007 at 6:21

Its not working for me… I downloaded, install, restart, plug in usb, fileshare mode… nothing mounts… the phone is brand new. could it be i lack some software or something on the phone?
40 Axel Råberg // Feb 24, 2007 at 6:22

osx 10.4.8 dual core 2 macbook pro osx 10.4.8 daual core 2 imac
41 Alf // Mar 7, 2007 at 17:02

For those like me who are wondering why they can’t put their M600 into file transfer mode (switch disabled) just pull out the usb cable, switch to file transfer mode and put it back in.
42 Andrew // Mar 12, 2007 at 0:18

I have no luck using Panther (10.3.9). Very sad:(
43 jackson // Mar 17, 2007 at 23:43

It is not working on my G4 powerbook under Panther 10.3.9. There must be a way!
44 Magnus Nordlander // Mar 18, 2007 at 18:54

jackson: Of course there is. Upgrade to Tiger.

Otherwise, someone with Panther and an M600 could use USB prober and just change the plist in the kext to work there.
45 Veerags // Mar 18, 2007 at 19:44

It works under my Powerbook 1.4.8 and M600i (Phone R9EC001, CDA R5A01).

Transfer speeds averages around 450KBytes/s. Much faster and more appropriate than using Bluetooth to transfer mp3s!

Thanks!!! Appreciate your efforts!!

Veerags.
46 michael // Mar 19, 2007 at 10:32

uups, can´t connect the pone doesn´t appear on the desktop. system: osx 10.4.9 and mbpro 2,33 core2duo. any tipps left ? thanks for help
47 Magnus Nordlander // Mar 19, 2007 at 10:52

If you’ve made sure that the phone is in file mode, then, no, I don’t know what is wrong.
48 Ken.o // Mar 25, 2007 at 21:20

have you ever tried using M600i as a bluetooth modem? connectin to the internet w/ a Mac via bluetooth over 3G? how do you configure M600i to do this?
49 Magnus Nordlander // Mar 25, 2007 at 21:35

Yeah, that works, you just have to make sure to use the modem scripts from http://www.taniwha.org.uk/ , and to use your APN as phone number.
50 Ken.o // Mar 25, 2007 at 22:39

i did the scripts and all.. i’ve tried a dozen times. w/o success. is it this complicated w/ the M600i? w/ my K800i, i didnt have any problems at all. same script, just paired it, and it worked. i didnt have to put APN #. what am i doin wrong?
51 Magnus Nordlander // Mar 25, 2007 at 22:54

For me it just kind of worked at the first try…
52 Ken.o // Mar 25, 2007 at 23:17

damn.. anybody else havin problems?
53 Andrew Parish // Mar 27, 2007 at 18:37

Works like a dream, Thanks (10.4.9 M600i)
54 sytal // Apr 9, 2007 at 13:36

Good site!!!
55 Richard // Apr 15, 2007 at 15:00

Fantastic job works well on my p990i and macbook. Just remember with no usb connected to phone press more (in unfliped mode) and conections and set to usb fuction file transfer. I set mine to this b4 i installed the program and it reverted to phone mode until i loaded this program and perfect. Thanks again.
56 Richard Weber // Apr 26, 2007 at 18:36

It works only a few seconds…then it unmounts:( I’m using a Pb 12″ G4 with 10.4.9
57 newformula.org » Make your Mac and Sony Ericsson M600i (or P990i) friendly // May 9, 2007 at 0:11

[...] According to Magnus Nordlander, the M600i is recognised by the Mac as a communications device when connected via USB – a modem of sorts, but a pretty useless one when in this mode. Selecting File Transfer in the M600i USB settings does nothing to help the situation, so Magnus developed a .kext system extension which fools the mac into treating it as Mass Storage device, allowing you to mount the memory card (but not the M600i’s internal memory) on your desktop, which opens a whole realm of other possibilities in getting media to and from your phone. Thanks Magnus – this is REALLY useful. [...]
58 alex from germany // May 13, 2007 at 21:29

great job!!!
59 Mac.chwilami » Blog Archive » Sony Ericsson M600i (Symbian UIQ 3) i Mac OS X // May 16, 2007 at 15:44

[...] Aby Mac wykrywał M600i jako pamięć USB i można było przeglądać zasoby telefonu, potrzebna jest łatka z tej strony: http://magnus.nordlander.tk/technology/sonyericsson-m600i-usb-file-mode-enabler (link na końcu tekstu). [...]
60 Setting SonyEricsson M600i as USB Drive in Mac OS X « Alisanta - Technology and Lifestyle Blog // May 16, 2007 at 18:06

[...] Back to the topic, here is the procedure to have your M600i act as USB drive: 1. Download kext file from Magnus Blog. (M600USBFileEnabler.zip) 2. Extract the file to anywhere 3. Close all running applications (this is a must since you have to restart computer later) 4. Run the installation file extracted from zip 5. Follow the step in the installer (basically you just hit the next button) 6. Upon completion, it will ask you to restart computer. 7. After restarting, change your M600i USB setting from “Phone Mode” to “File Transfer” 8. Plug data cable from phone to computer 9. Pray that your Mac will detect a new storage and mount it. (it works for me!) [...]
61 Johann // May 26, 2007 at 11:35

Hi! First of all, thanks for your Extension. However, it does not work with my old 10.3.9 powerbook. Updating to Tiger is not as easy as this is a very old G3. I had a look at the plist and found the following lines: … idProduct 57392 idProductMask 65520 idVendor 4046 …

When using the system profiler, my m600i has the product id 57393. I changed it in the plist, restarted and put the phone to file mode – however the device does not show up. Are there any additional things i should change in the plist?

Best regards

Johann
62 Magnus Nordlander // May 26, 2007 at 11:48

It’s not as simple as just entering a different product id, that one should have been covered by the ProductMask anyway.

As I do not have 10.3.9 I don’t really know what to change, but I can give you some general tips. The first is to use USB Prober (included in Xcode) instead of system profiler, it is better suited for the task. Secondly, I would pretty much just try to read up on using codeless kexts under Panther, and also USB devices under Panther.

What the kext does is to match product ids to a mask and set that these should be handled as mass storage devices instead of communication devices.
63 Johann // May 26, 2007 at 14:21

Thanks for your fast reply! I spent the last hours searching and must confess i haven’t dug much up… i read through USB driver matching (http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1076.html) and saw that a device should best be identified by idVendor + idProduct + bcdDevice, which is what I did then, by supplying the data gathered with USB prober. I could not find out the product class anywhere, but maybe it is not needed? When I restart (or reload with kextload – by the way, unloading the module does not work) my m600i still does not get mounted. USB Prober shows a “Interface #0 – Mass Storage/SCSI” Device, but this does not mount… I have also tried to match version numbers in the Info.plist to those in the other kexts, and the kext itself loads without errors. Sorry to bother you, but I am a non-programmer and I guess just don’t know what to do now. Do you have some reference about writing kext files?

All the best

Johann
64 Magnus Nordlander // May 26, 2007 at 14:30

Not anything beyond what’s on developer.apple.com, no, sorry.
65 DD // May 29, 2007 at 3:30

I am pretty set on purchasing a SE990i but discouraged from lack of support for Mac. This freeware seems great. I have two questions: Do you have any info on how to successfully upload video files created on a Mac in iMovie/Quicktime files? I need to be able to upload and easily play video for presentation purposes and have to confirm that this is possible first before I purchase 990i. Secondly, can Microsoft Entourage calendar, address book, and any accompanying Office notifications be transferred from Mac 10.4.8 to the 990i and work fine? This function is also very important. I’ve been searching for over a year for a smartphone/PDA, really like the 990i above all but these are my two most important needs for the phone, any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

DD
66 Magnus Nordlander // May 29, 2007 at 10:47

As for the first question,I am reasonably sure that it is possible, if you export the files to 3gp. I’ve also seen third party video players that might make it possible to view without exporting. No guarantees though.

As of now syncing with a mac is not possible. However I have read that SE are planning to release some sort of support for this in June. What will be included is something that I have no way of speculating over though, so I suppose you will have to wait and see.
67 PeterP in Sydney // Jun 1, 2007 at 9:33

i also have 10.3.9 with G4 iBook. It does not work for me. I would suggest from above responses this kext does not work with 10.3.9

Unable to upgrade to 10.4 at this time. Currently waiting for 10.5 then will get extra memore to go with it.

Meanwhile, I just hope some here out there finds a way to solve this for us 10.3.9′ers. It is so frustrating having a good phone and being unable to use its capabilities.

What I REALLY want though is ability to use USB modem capability of the phone. I use Hutchison’s 3 service in Sydney Australia, and really need mobile internet on my iBook. “3″’s PCCard solution is not an option because there is no pccard in an iBook. My only hope is the USB.

Anyone found a way yet with 10.3.9? Thanks for a great site.
68 Mirko Steinle // Jun 1, 2007 at 18:23

Dear Magnus, I’m having a P900 for which iSync works fine. However, i have no clue how to transfer files, or how to mount it on my mac (10.4)? Thank you for your work. Mirko
69 Magnus Nordlander // Jun 2, 2007 at 0:08

I am sorry, but the P900 is an entirely different phone (as is the P910), and thus I don’t know how to do that. One option is of course to get a memory card reader, but I don’t know if it is possible to mount anything through the phone. Sorry.
70 Eric // Jun 4, 2007 at 20:00

The only way to get support for Mac in these phones is to let manufacturers know that you will not buy the devices because they do not sync with Macs out of the box. They will respond to customer demand.
71 Jordi // Jun 20, 2007 at 21:17

Tjenna Magnus,

I’m having a weird problem… when I setup my M600 to file transfer mode.. as soon as I plug the USB cable to my macbook pro with 1.4.9.. the M600 swicth back to phone mode…

any clue on this?

greetings from the mediterranean sea!

Jordi
72 Jordi // Jun 20, 2007 at 21:21

Solved!

Once File Transfer mode is selected, MUST be saved persist.. if not, when the USB cable is connected swicth back to phone mode.

cheers!

Adeu!
73 John Viner // Jul 6, 2007 at 8:45

Hej Magnus! Tack!! I have a P990i and had written to sony ericsson a couple of times about the problem. Each time I got a short, unhelpful, reply saying that the phone is simply not compatible with Mac and that I should contact Mac about this (and not sony ericsson!). They seem to miss the irony that they promote an open source OS on one hand but then assume the whole world uses Windows! What is Apple’s position on this? Has there been any communication from them? Anyway, I installed your file and it works well with my P990i (once I had read that I needed to go into the control panel of the phone and change the USB mode to file transfer!). Only irritating problem now is every time I connect the phone, iPhoto treats the USB device as a camera and opens up ready to import the phone’s photos… Can’t seem to be able to disable that.
74 Ulf // Jul 21, 2007 at 19:22

Hi! I tried for my SE P1i, but it didn´t work. Any suggestions how to mount P1 as drive?
75 Magnus Nordlander // Jul 21, 2007 at 22:16

Well, it is possible that a similar solution to this would work, although I need some data about the phone to write the plist. If you want to help, install Xcode (if it isn’t already installed) and contact me via IM or E-mail. Addresses are available on the ‘About me’ page.
76 Playing With Wire » Howto get your P990i to sync with iSync // Jul 23, 2007 at 21:15

[...] USB File mode enabler [...]
77 Imran Anwar // Jul 29, 2007 at 22:13

Thanks for this work. My brother and I both have P990’s and Mac laptops. We both also have P900’s. He also has a 910. The 900 was a poor camera but a beautiful Mac Bluetooth-GPRS bridge for unlimited data plans on T-Mobil. It also worked perfectly with iSync (after some plist tweaking). The P990 is a better camera, much faster allowing multiple things to be done, BUT a pathetic example of the ugly and (makes me happy) FAILING Sony corporation shoving incompatibilities on customers, often even in product lines.

I can use a standard USB-USB mini cable to charge a dozen devices when I travel with my PowerBook G4 (or MacBook Pro for my brother) including Blackberry, MOTOROLA RAZR, etc. I even had invested in several spare adaptors and USB-P900 charging cables for the P900 but SONY had to go and change the incomatible-plug-style of the P900 to an even MORE incompatible-plug-style for the P990 so you cannot even leverage your investment in the P900 line.

P900 had a non-standard charger and it was hard to find compatible headphones (when even Apple’s iPod uses standard jacks for audio) but the 990 has the ugly bulky plug-in shape on the headphones also.

On top of that P990 uses a stupid new way of handling data so AddressBook/iCal synch that worked beautifully with iSync will not work with P990.

No wonder SONY keeps losing market share in most areas. Instead of focusing on making money from great compatible product sales they want to screw people from having to buy expensive incompatible and stupid formats like Memory Stick, P990 plugstyles, etc.

I was so desperately seeking P990 items to work with Macs, but now simply waiting for the incredible iPhone to offer modem-capabilities (which they have seemed to deliberately held back). Then I say Good Bye to Sony phones and the P990 is going on eBay.

Again, thanks for reducing the pain of being a SONY user. But, shame on SONY overall.

Imran http://imran.TV/
78 MikeManiac // Jul 31, 2007 at 9:45

any look to get the SE P1i to mount jet ? Please update me (if you can) when it works.

Thanks
79 Magnus Nordlander // Jul 31, 2007 at 11:07

A similar hack doesn’t seem to work for the P1i, sorry.
80 JOseph // Aug 1, 2007 at 7:58

Hey Dude.. Its a grea job you have done…My memory card of the SE990i shows up on the mac but the video and audio data i transfer on it does not seem to play.The jpegs have no problems….do you have a solution to this pls
81 Magnus Nordlander // Aug 6, 2007 at 9:16

I would think that this is a codec problem. Which codecs are you using for the videos and audio?
82 Bas // Aug 7, 2007 at 18:31

Great work Magnus. Installed, restarted and the M600i is mounted on my iMac. Music copied and playing. All OK.
83 Oscar // Aug 15, 2007 at 10:51

Hi, I hoped to have found this page sooner. The solution saved me from using the BlueTooth to communicate my Podcasts/Mp3s instead of this nice little working wire on my macbook pro.

Thank you very much.
84 Hogmoru // Aug 15, 2007 at 17:29

Aaah, just the same as Oscar above, thank you so much
85 Tiltex // Aug 17, 2007 at 20:31

It works fine. But I sold me M600 and bought a P1, because the M600 cant be synct with the mac, new Firmware and everything, it doesn’t work. I have enought, after 1 ear trying and loosing time. But is there a Plug-in to mount my P1 anywhre?
86 Magnus Nordlander // Aug 17, 2007 at 20:37

Tiltex: Not that I’m aware of. I’ve tried the same approach with the P1i, but that’s so far been unsuccessful.
87 Tiltex // Aug 17, 2007 at 20:46

Thank you. I will see here later, maybe you will try , pleasae do it, I wish you good luck!
88 charles // Aug 18, 2007 at 19:10

hi magnus! first thanks so much for making this great little extension. it worked great all those months with my p990i. i just bought a p1i and encountered the same problem on tiger as everybody. i used usb prober and found that the id product of the p1i is different than the m600i (obviously). i replaced the 57392 of the m600 by the 57490 of the p1i, saved the kext, removed the old m600 kext and replaced it with the modified one, restarted the computer, plugged the p1i and the memory card now appears normally on the desktop. as you are the creator of this extension, i wanted to ask you if you wouldn’t mind if i share this information and the modified kext on the my-symbian.com forum, as there seem to be a lot of people facing that issue (and not everybody is gonna instantly switch to leopard too when that’s gonna be released). or maybe you could make the modified p1i extension available for download on your site ? whatever you decide, thx again for your input!
89 Magnus Nordlander // Aug 18, 2007 at 19:26

Interesting that you got it to work, I tried the exact same thing. Feel free to post a modified version, although, knowing this I will update this probably some time tomorrow.
90 charles // Aug 18, 2007 at 19:29

just for your reference, i got it to work on a powerbook g4 12″ running 10.4.10 and a macbook 13″ 2ghz also running 10.4.10. both are working like a charm.
91 thomas // Aug 19, 2007 at 0:08

charles, do you think you could post a link to the modified kext here, or post a link to the my-symbian forum thread. Because i could’nt find it..

Thomas
92 JAFMAN // Aug 23, 2007 at 10:50

Hi,

Thanks for the enabler. Before installing it I couldn’t get my Macbook to recognize my P990i. It still doesn’t recognize the device in the sense that I can’t use iSync but it shows the Memory Stick which is good enough for the time being. At least I can move my files on and off the phone.

Thanks a lot.
93 Oscar // Aug 26, 2007 at 15:25

MODIFIED .KEXT for P1i.

Working on 10.4.10 And my P1 with UIQ-firmware R6D and Phone Firmware R9G

To be found here: http://www.soundelicious.se/diverse/M600USBFileEnabler.kext.zip

Just extract, put it in /system/Library/extensionsm and reboot and you will be set!

Hope this is ok Magnus!?

Best regards

/Oscar
94 Oscar // Aug 26, 2007 at 15:30

Opps, forgot to rename it!

Here goes again:

WORKING URL: http://www.soundelicious.se/diverse/P1USBFileEnabler.kext.zip
95 Bara för dem som har P1i och Mac « // Sep 1, 2007 at 6:02

[...] 1. Gå in på denna blogg och ladda ned filen M600USBFileEnabler.zip [...]
96 jack // Sep 18, 2007 at 13:14

thx for that it works perfectly
97 velkus // Oct 18, 2007 at 16:47

yes yes yes!!!!

thanks!!!!

works prerfectly in my P1i !
98 Ric Vieira // Oct 22, 2007 at 22:47

I have P990i & Mac OS 10.4.10 w/ new iSync 2.4 and still cannot sync them !

Help please.

Cheers,

RV
99 Magnus Nordlander // Oct 23, 2007 at 0:08

Sorry, this isn’t for syncing, this is for accessing the files on the memory card using the USB cable.

I have heard of success to sync the P990i with Macs, but I don’t know much about it, so keep googling.
100 fugu // Oct 24, 2007 at 22:00

jau! it works! thanks for that!
101 Hardijs // Oct 25, 2007 at 16:58

no – leopard did not change anything – got latest fw for the date (had to reset everything) – and iSync still did not work
102 ProDigi // Oct 31, 2007 at 18:07

i’m running os 10.3.9 on my powerbook g4 12″ and i’ve already installed the prober. the p1i is being detected as a communication device on the bus probe panel. problem is i don’t know how it works :-/
103 Magnus Nordlander // Nov 6, 2007 at 9:37

As it has been said earlier in the comments, this doesn’t work on 10.3.9. My recommendation is to install Leopard. Browsing files on my M600i over USB works without this kext in Leopard, so it wouldn’t surprise me if works for the P990i and the P1i as well.
104 Jamie Gone Dun a Weblog » Blog Archive » Syncing M600i with Mac Address Book // Nov 11, 2007 at 11:55

[...] 1. Mac – Install Magnus Nordlander’s ‘SonyEricsson M600i USB File mode enabler‘, which means you can mount the phone’s memorycard on your desktop. This is good not only for the process I’m decribing, but also for putting photos, music and video on your phone. Wowee! [...]
105 Bernt Månsson - på förekommen anledning » Hur man får filöverföringen att funka mellan SonyEricsson P1 och en Mac // Nov 15, 2007 at 21:17

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106 Zip Boterbloem // Nov 20, 2007 at 22:48

I upgraded to X.4.11 and now the kext doesn’t work anymore. Just tried reinstalling. Nada. Anyone have success with X.4.11?

Best,

Zip
107 Zip Boterbloem // Nov 20, 2007 at 22:53

Hmm. My m600i doesn’t show up in Leopard either. Weird.
108 Zip Boterbloem // Nov 23, 2007 at 14:05

Forget my last 2 emails. I had to reboot the m600i. It hung. Took out the battery. restart. All is fine, it is seen by OSX.4.11
109 smash // Dec 25, 2007 at 9:44

Don’t work in leopard Thank you for post…
110 Noel // Apr 1, 2008 at 17:34

Do anybody know how to connect the Leopard MacBook thorugh USB cable to my P1i USB modem? it is because it have error likes “AppleUSBCDCACMData: cannot find CDC diver”
111 TeeBee // May 8, 2008 at 9:37

could not load the file from the link at the top of the page – but by changing .tf to .se it worked
112 Dimitri // Aug 5, 2008 at 16:15

magnus, Some news to send contact from P990i to Macbook Air Léopard 10.5.4 ? I will buy an Iphone and don’t want to re-create all my contacts Dimitri
113 Magnus Nordlander // Aug 5, 2008 at 17:00

Dimitri: If you just want to send all your contacts from the phone to your Mac it’s pretty simple.

On your P99oi, open Contacts, click More, go to Contact Manager -> Back up.

There will now be a file on your memory card, under Other/Backup/Contacts called Contacts.vcf. Transfer this file to your Mac (for example by using the cable or using Bluetooth), and open it.

This should add all your phone contacts to your Mac’s Address Book.

This also works well for transferring calendar items to iCal (but they’re in Other/Backup/Calendar/).

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