ZTE awe soft-bricked?

i downloaded an update, ( FROM THE PHONES MANUFACTURER, ZTE), then was greeted with the encrypt. unsuccess. screen, but i was a pre-noobie, this was my first SMART phone, so i rebooted the phone, as instructed.

i then proceeded to flash bad rom, after bad rom, (about five total, maybe four), i can still boot in DFU, and to cwm-based recovery v.6.0.3.7, but the phone no longer can see/mount/format,etc. the (external) microsd card. any help is greatly appreciated, and probably undeserved. thank you just for reading this.