[Asus ZenFone AR Questions & Answers] Pedreo1997:
Well, I know this is a dead thread, still I'm coming here quite interested into recovering an investment in this phone I bought on Amazon, based in the replies of the questions of the product, saying it's unlocked... and surprise! As I placed a Movistar (VE) SIM on it for using, I found that I'm unable to use WiFi.

I've been following this steps for days (since Dec. 26, in fact) and everything has been dead end over dead end.

I can say that I've been looking for an stand-alone/offline version of AFT 1.0.0.72 with no success. I keep getting the error of 'Failed to download the version control file via FTP'.

I'm using 3 computers for this: a W7 32-bit notebook, a W10 64-bit desktop and a W11 64-bit laptop. I'm saying this, because... well, for some reason I've noticed about AFT v2:

In W7, it opens but doesn't recognize the phone battery

In W10, it doesn't even open

In W11, it goes smoothly and read phone battery

I'll add it is crucial AFT v2 reading phone battery (that means, phone turning on normally) because otherwise it doesn't do anything at all.

Anyway, when I tried flashing with AFT v2, it was a dead end because it did nothing (that was after program sending the phone into recovery mode). I tried to manually sideload it with 'adb sideload <filename>' with no success, getting an error message saying it can't read the file.

I opened the .zip files... surprise, .RAW files inside! 🙃 I've used adb sideload before in Huawei phones, and I know the usual is to see .img files, so... I guess I need to decompress (somehow) the .RAW file. I'll take a look in that later.

Still, I want to attempt first the path suggested of VZWSUATool, just to see if I can somehow force it to install the ENG .RAW software. Right now I'm using the W11 64-bit laptop, but if compatibility problems arise, I'll jump back to W7 32-bit notebook.

Update 1 - 21:48 VET / 2023-01-03

Maybe VZWSUATool is another dead end. I've tried it first on the W11 64-bit laptop and it doesn't even starts (there are 2 library errors). I went back to W7 32-bit laptop, and... turned on normally does nothing, so I went into 'How to Repair...', put the phone into Fastboot but and after passing the FRP question, the "Unsupported device" window came up.

Update 2 - 22:19 VET / 2023-01-03

I decided to throw a risky attempt, basically crossing fingers at this point. I know the (sort of) equivalent model to our V570KL is ZS571KL. In AFT 1.0.0.45, the only option "close" to it is ZS570KL. Yeah, I was attempting something a bit absurd, but had not much to lose.

Another failed atttempt.

(Note: It was in Blue = Connected when it started)

Update 3 - 22:45 VET / 2023-01-03

Okay, apparently I'm heading into a new clue this time. Using the W11 64-bit laptop, I decided to force-choosing the .RAW file, and selected 'V570KL_all_VZW_user_V3.8.1.raw'

It recognized the file, rebooted into recovery, and this time recovery DID something. It was a failure, but what does surprise me is the file being, eh... succesfully sideloaded.

I'll try to sideload .RAW file 'V570KL_all_WW_eng_T3.0.6.raw' and see what happens.

Update 4 - 22:53 VET / 2023-01-03

Okay, I'll continue my attempts tomorrow. For now, with ASUS Zenfone Fash Tool V2.0.1.0, in the W11 64-bit Laptop (the only one in where it's working as it should, apparently) is giving the same error as in Update 3 for VZW .raw file, and WW .raw file does, ehm... nothing. I don't know what I'm skipping, I'll re-download the file and see what happens tomorrow after arriving home from work.