Ergo B501 flashing and malware cleaning

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In addition to its good performance and capacitive battery, at an attractive price, the Ergo B501 firmware has several apk built-in that force the advertisement to load after some time using the device. The latest official firmware at the moment: Ergo B501_OS3.0 Lite_20171117 .

You can get rid of viruses in Ergo B501 by flashing a virus-free firmware.

Ergo B501 flashing

You will need:

  • Drivers for Mediatek based devices
  • RomHelper firmware for firmware modification
  • SP Flash Tool for Ergo B501 firmware
  • Firmware Ergo B501_OS3.0 Lite_20171117

You can download everything you need in one archive at this link:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Eh0I-xX8BF7EAjxpVa13cnuEYE6McQJN

The firmware from the archive is already cleared of malicious apk:

  • DeskClock.apk removed
  • Removed the /system/priv-app/MakeupOuteda folder

I left the original image of the system partition for comparison under the name system_old.img

Ergo B501 firmware cleaning from viruses

  • Run ROMHelper and go to the ROM Fix section. Enter the path to system.img and click the Select Package button.
  • Waiting for the application to unzip the image may take a few minutes

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    • In the application list window, selectDeskClock.apk , which downloads the malicious modules into folder MakeupOutedaROMHelper-delete-APK
  • Next on the left we select Explorer , find the folder /system/priv-app/MakeupOuteda and delete it

ROMHelper-modify-firmwareThen click Build. The original firmware will be saved with the suffix _old.

Important! The program will try to sew it’s own advertising!

To prevent it from doing so, delete the C:\Users\% username%\AppData\Roaming\YZMG\RomZhuShouSV\Cloud folder before clicking Build.

However, if you frequently use the program, it is not convenient to manually delete each time. In this case, the folder reading ban will help:

Also disable the System , Administrators , and Administrator groups.

The deny.bat script from the archive will do this automatically. Run it as Administrator

Firmware Ergo B501 SPFlash Tool

SPFlash Tool is a Mediatek- based device firmware utility.

  • Install the drivers. Navigate to the MTK_drivers folder, right-click on the Install.bat file and select “Run as Administrator”. It should turn out like this:

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  • Turn off the phone
  • Launch SP Flash Tool
  • The program must specify the path to MTK_AllinOne_DA.bin in the first field. It is in the application folder . If not specified – specify.
  • We select the scatter file MT6580_Android_scatter.txt in the firmware folder , set the “ Format All + Download “ download mode.
  • It should come out as in the picture below:SPFlash-Tool-Ergo
  • Click the Download button.
  • We connect the phone to the computer, the firmware will start automatically when the device is detected.
  • When the firmware is successfully completed, a green circle will appear in the small dialog box and the firmware is completed.SPFlash-Tool-download-firmware-completed

Starting your phone for the first time will take a few minutes, that’s fine. It is advisable to reset the phone to factory settings.

Enjoy your phone without viruses and advertising!

Want me to do this for you? Drop me a line: itgalaxyzzz {at} gmail [dot] com