Blackberry Storm II ‘Odin’ on Ubuntu 10.04
Hi there, it’s me again with my experience using Ubuntu Linux.
This time I want to show you how to mount your Blackberry device with Ubuntu Linux. Normally, some device doesn’t need this kind of action, but in my case I needed to do this.
When I got this Odin on my hand. The first thing that I would like to do is connecting it to my Linux box (yay! look how much fanatic I am *giggles*). And at that time, unfortunately that the device is suddenly reboot soon after the USB is plugged in. And it keeps reboot and keeps reboot and keeps reboot … *sigh*
Then I try to connect it to my sister-in-law’s Netbook, running M$ Windows XP, and it run well. Darn!
After few search in the internet, I found that installing barry would solve the problem. Here are some quotes from their site …
Barry is an Open Source application that will provide synchronization, backup, restore and program management for BlackBerry ™ devices. Barry is primarily developed on Linux, but is intended as a cross platform library and application set, targeting Linux, BSD, 32/64bit, and big/little endian systems.
So, on Ubuntu, you just go to Synaptic Package Manager and fetch all packages that contains “barry” on it (except the -dbg one of course).
First attempt … no reboot issue found anymore, and my Odin is charging using the USB interface. But wait, the mass storage doesn’t mounted. I have set the configuration on Option > Memory > Enable Mass Storage and Auto Enable Mass Storage When Connected to Yes.
And then I found the solution on this page. It said that the udev rules is the cause of everything. removing the /etc/udev/rules.d/10-blackberry.rules would be the solution. Please be aware that the ‘10′ on ‘10-blackberry.rules’ is vary, on your device it could be ‘65′, or more.
And so I plugged the device once again, and walla! Two mass storage is shown on Nautilus. Now my Odin is back into business ^^ … *transferring a lot of song and movies here :p
Hope this will help you. Cheers!!
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