K750iGrabber

Disconnecting your K750i, without the Crashes

Why would I need this anyway?

After getting my SonyEricsson K750i phone, I was delighted to see that it comes with a USB cable included (which can even be used to charge the phone). My happiness was slightly dampened, though, when I realized that my Mac seemed to crash every time shortly after disconnecting the phone from the USB port. Not good. Since charging over USB seemed like a rather slick thing to be able to do, there had to be some way to get this to work.

After some more investigation, it turned out that the K750i not only provides a card reader interface over USB, but also provides several interfaces for modem and device configuration functionality. As Bluetooth is plenty fast for the former, and there are no Mac device drivers for the latter, I built a simple driver that seizes all those unused USB interfaces and disables them.

And indeed it turned out that, with that driver installed, I could now connect and disconnect the K750i without crashing my Mac. Yay!

In addition to the K750i, the current version also supports the D750i, W800i and Z800i.

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So where's the download?

Right here:

K750iGrabber.pkg.zip

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OK, so how do I install this thing?

Just download K750iGrabber.pkg.zip, unzip it, double-click the resulting installer package and follow the on-screen instructions.

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How about getting rid of it?

Just delete the K750iGrabber.kext file from /System/Library/Extensions, reboot and it's gone.

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Comments & feedback

Let me know if you encounter any bugs or have any suggestions. Please send email to user razzfazz at the provider named web.de.

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