Powerbook USB?

I'm not sure if this is the right thread for this, but any help given is greatly appreciated. I have a Sony Ericsson w600i cell phone. I would like to make ringtones for it and such. My question is, when I plug in the cell phone to my computer, via USB... My computer isn't picking up the device. I'm not getting any sort of pop up message or anything, everything just stays the same. It's getting very annoying. Sorry for venting my annoyance, but my question is... is there a way I can manually run the device thats plugged in through USB?

It really depends upon what type of USB device the phone is aiming to be.
If it were simply a 'mass storage device' or a camera-like 'PTP' (picture transfer protocol) it would have appeared automatically on your desktop as a disk, so it sounds like it's not one of those (I've got a V600i - a similar phone, but I've never tried using the USB interface on it.)
You may have more luck using your phone's Bluetooth connectivity, along with the Bluetooth file transfer utility, iSync, and third party tools such as PhoneAgent. That's what I do, and it works like a charm!

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