Sony Bridge + MTP --- needs work

[#1]

I know Apple get a lot of slating in the android world. But with my old iPhone 3GS I could put it in the dock, and it would sync. No brainer.

I love this ray, its a wonderful, small fast phone and with a 32gb SD card its a great media player. But seriously SE, fix Sony Bridge. If I want to use MTP mode, and for updates I have to apparently, then I get an approximate 2% success rate in getting Sony Bridge to recognise the phone. Thats a hell of a lot of extra wear and tear on the phone USB port.

its also SLOW. I gave up trying to use Bridge Sync. BUT the beauty of bridge sync is in transferring iTunes playlists. My paylists often have one or two tracks from a variety of albums. Syncing a playlist means I don't have to hunt and peck through a bunch of folders to pick out one or two songs at a time from each album....

SB often balloons processor time to 100% usage, and often falls over, so I had to sync a 25gb playlist 200 mb at a time. and did I mention it is SLOW. OK I've got aslower Class 4 SD card, but even so often SB just sits thee doing nothing.

Sony - I love this phone, but the software is VERY frustrating. Having to continually clear the MTPAPP data , reinstalling Sony Bridge etc is tiresome. Love or hate the iTunes/iPhone infrastructure - it largely works.

I went for a Ray as money is tight at the moment and the reviews of the phone praised it, and the software. Obviously no one reviewing it tried syncing with a mac! Anyone else with a mac got any tips for stopping me going insane 😉

[#2]

Ok I'm back to 'normal' now - Bridge picking up the phone every 5th attempt 😉 This is realy frustrating. I just wish I'd known this before accepting an Xperia. I'd have gone for a HTC or something otherwise.

[Johan]

I have just received info that a new version of Bridge for Mac (3.0) is coming up, but I don't have any exact date yet unfortunately.

[#4]

Will it be here by 2013, along with my ice cream update? useless.

[robot_army]

Try http://www.android.com/filetransfer/ for transfering files! Apple is lacking an MTP implementation, don't use lame sony software, this worked for me (so long as all you want to do is transfer files you'll be fine)