Sony Bridge 2.1 workarounds and fails

It is sad to see Sony is following the fallacy that lead to ruin of many companies, but it is here: Sub-par software that shouldn't be called more than beta, bad user experience for the sake of following "market experts and statistics" etc... etc... .
Whatever, let's share the workarounds trying to live with what they have. They are at least trying.
Connection problem: The problem is caused by a mixture of causes. The first one is that the software rejects the phone as soon as it is plugged. There is no %100 working way to bypass this, it depends on the "phase of the moon".  I think the success rate is better when a) reboot computer after first install, b) close the application if it is open, c) plug the phone, and let the software open by itself. Then there comes the second problem: The extremely slow connection between the phone and the software (Sony xperia s 2012, Macbook pro 2010, OSx 10.6.8). The phone identification times out most of the time. By a miracle of the gods or in the correct phase of the moon, whatever you call it, my phone got recognized, and I was able to update it to 6.0.A.3.73. Sadly it has not improved things on connection front.       
Extreme slow transfer: By the time I am writing this, I have been waiting 10+ hours to transfer 8 gb of data. Unless how the data is stored in the phone involve mockingbirds writing to small stone tablets like in Flinstones, this transfer rate is unaccaptable. Sadly, I have not found any solution to this. The phone does not allow mass storage mode, which is a shame. I advice using wi-fi sync methods, like what doubletwist offers, otherwise, sony software is next to unusable.

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