I'm not sure what you did starting with pic VB8012-307EC97_2017-06-16_11-28-19.png, but it looks like you re-enabled 'continuous SCK', which isn't going to help ANYTHING. Turn that back off!
What I see in VB8012-307EC97_2017-06-16_11-13-54.png as your 2nd write, to register 0x20, BUT you must have done something different in your code as regards the CONT bit (other than what I have shown all along), because CS is only active for the first 3 bytes. Figure 2 in the AFE4490 datasheet clearly shows a full 32-bit CS (STE) requirement. Until you get that full-width CS, nothing else will ever work.