Am I the First? Hard Bricked H9500+

[TassieAU]

I've not managed to fix my phone as yet (despite three nights working on it!). I have two 'S4 Android' H9500+ phones that were purchased from Japan – one is working and one stops at Android Logo. They have 1gb RAM and 8gb internal SD (and take up to 32gb external SD). They only have Google Japanese input installed so were obviously set up for the Japan market only but my working one works fine in Australia.

Model : GT-H9500 Build number : ALPS.JB2.MP.V1.2

Build date UTC : 20130511-074106 Android v : 4.2.1

Baseband v: MOLY.WR8.W1248.MD.WG.MP.V6.P4, 2013/05/04 18:26

Kernel v : 3.4.5 (root@android) (gcc version 4.6.x-google 20120106 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Sat May 11 15:50:18 CST 2013

I've rooted the working phone and made several attempts to create a working ROM from it using this resource ( [Only registered and activated users can see links Click here to register] ) and the Bedove MTK6577 PDF guide. Every ROM I try to flash including ROMS compiled from my working phone return the error 'BROM ERROR: S_FT_DOWNLOAD_FAIL (4008). The ROMS I'm compiling do not seem big enough and are always missing ANDROID, CACHE and USRDATA files.

I'm using SP Flash 3.1328.0.183 (MTK ALLnOneDA.bin) and MTK Droid Tools V2.4.8.

Any suggestions?