Mount Sony Ericsson W800i Gutsy Gibbon

[moisessalum]

I recently upgraded to Gutsy. ( I have many problems now!!)

One problem, is that I can't mount my Sony Ericsson W800i to my computer.

When I used Feisty, it mounted instantly, but now, I get an error message.

It appears a little error message like this.

Cannot mount volume. Unable to mount volume. mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so.

I run dmesg | tail and this is what appears.

moises@moises-desklap:~$ dmesg | tail [ 1787.736000] SCSI device sdb: 1921024 512-byte hdwr sectors (984 MB) [ 1787.772000] sdb: Write Protect is off [ 1787.772000] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00 [ 1787.772000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through [ 1787.784000] SCSI device sdb: 1921024 512-byte hdwr sectors (984 MB) [ 1787.792000] sdb: Write Protect is off [ 1787.792000] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00 [ 1787.792000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through [ 1787.792000] sdb: sdb1 [ 1788.920000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "usefree" or missing value

I don't know what to do!!!

Help Please!!

[Solenoid]

I have the same problem, when I connect the USB cable the phone just flashes in Computer and then goes away, I can try to click on it before it disappears and it says "Unable to mount media - There is probably no media in the drive". I have tried some packages, but no luck. Can anybody point me to the right direction?

[chronographer]

Hello. I don't know how long ago you posted this but I have just plugged my phone in and it mounted automagically! Cool eh?

[reza81]

I have a K800i with the same problem. In Feisty it worked just fine

[reza81]

Oke to fix this you need to make a mount point.

You have to look wath the device name is. To do this:

sudo fdisk -l

than you see all of your connected devices

sudo mkdir /media/phone

sudo mount /dev/sdh1 /media/phone

[reza81]

sudo fdisk -l <<< gives you an output like this

rza@space-ride:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for rza:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x39fa39f9

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         304     2441848+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2   *         305        2432    17093160   83  Linux
/dev/sda3            2433        9729    58613152+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320046346240 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38910 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x29aa5e05

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       38910   312544543+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdg: 86 MB, 86016000 bytes
14 heads, 10 sectors/track, 1200 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 140 * 512 = 71680 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdg1   *           1        1021       71400+   4  FAT16 <32M

Disk /dev/sdh: 956 MB, 956238336 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 911 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdh1   *           1         912      933826+   6  FAT16
rza@space-ride:~$

[Solenoid]

I'm still trying to figure it out. When in Windows XP I used to go the My Computer -> Manage and there find it with its missing driver, then upon clicking update driver it found it and worked perfectly. In Ubuntu there's a similar thing called Hardware Information (under Preferences). I can see my Sony Ericsson W800 there. By scrolling down there's even a Memory Stick at /dev/sdb and its volume at /dev/sdb1. I tried to mount it, but it asked for the filesystem, what filesystem does a USB card/stick have? I was going to try FAT, but it seems there's no such thing.

Was this removed in Ubuntu Gutsy? Why? Why can some people connect their phone with no problems? Do I have to recompile my kernel and enable some options... or something like that.

[Solenoid]

Still asks for filesystem (I made the W800i directory all by myself trough the terminal ).

solenoid@desktop:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/w800i
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

doesn't work, it asks for the filesystem.

Here's what it gave me,

solenoid@desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd35cd35c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1912    15358108+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            1913        2885     7815622+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3           24076       24321     1975995   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4            2886       24075   170208675   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 2045 MB, 2045771776 bytes
128 heads, 32 sectors/track, 975 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4096 * 512 = 2097152 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1         976     1997636+   b  W95 FAT32
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(975, 127, 32) logical=(975, 63, 32)

[Solenoid]

Solved. For those with seek the answer to the same question:

1) make a mount point, I made mine in /media/w800i, to do this open the terminal and enter

sudo mkdir /media/w800i

this will be the folder where you access the memory stick - feel free to change w800i to anything you want.

2) enter this in the terminal

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/w800i

where sdb1 is your memory stick (I found this in Hardware Information under preferences).

Now you can access your memory stick from /media/w800i.

Also when removing your device you should unmount it, probably to avoid file corruption.

So before removing the phone enter this in the terminal:

sudo umount /media/w800i

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Solenoid]

There's still an issue , I can't add stuff to the memory stick and some characters arent displayed (extended ASCII I think: é, è, ü, ö...). I tried to add -w (read/write), but since it's already by default it didn't change anything. I'm able to read files though.