vx 8700 shine USB/data cable issues

Hey I just bought a VX8700 Shine phone and a 2GB microSD memory card for my phone. The phone comes with a USB cable to connect to your computer. I installed the 8700 drivers to my computer and I have my microSD card in my phone but for some reason my phone still isn't recognized by the software. What am I doing wrong/not doing at all and how do I get this to work? Has anyone else had issues getting this to work?

you can use data cable and you can download whatever you want.

I had this problem at first, too. Go to 'Tools', then scroll down to the last option, USB something something. Hit okay, and your phone will connect to the computer. I just used Windows explorer to put music on my sd card. Couldn't get the phone to use any of them as ringtones, though. Oh well.

Make sure the connection mode is Mass Storage