NOOB Guide to Backing up/ Installing Theme Manager/adding themes and changing F/W

[Nazaroth]

Hi to all noobs

Hopefully this will help alot of you to back-up your firmware, install Theme Manager 3.2 or change firmware (Only do this if you need to as firmwares are NOT upgrades)

PLEASE READ ALL OF THESE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO DO ANYTHING

Important parts are highlighted in RED, follow EXACTLY what it says

**NEW VIDEO TUTORIALS HAVE BEEN INCLUDED**

Ok first things first, you will need to download EFS to do all of the above, find that here and an alternative version here (use this one if your pc flags the first one as a virus)
You can find firmware versions here, here or in the WIKI
You can get TM 3.2 here

Ok now we are going to back-up your firmware first so that if any mistakes are made then you can restore your Viewty back to working order.
Backing up your firmware (Video Tutorial here)

• First, on your pc's desktop, create a new folder by right clicking in an empty space and choose new - folder, name this LGAPP or something that you will remember.
• Now open the EFS program, but don't connect your phone yet. You will see a large empty screen with an "explore" button on the top bar, press this.
• A smaller empty box will open in the middle, click cancel on this one.
• You will notice that the screen is now split into 4 sections. In the bottom half is your Pc's files, the top half will show your phones files once we are connected.
• In the bottom left section, find your desktop where you saved the new file that you named before. Open the desktop folder and then open the newly named file, the bottom right section should be empty.
• Now, put your phone into "Data mode" by going to Settings-Phone settings-Connectivity-USB connection mode-Data mode. Return to the home screen.
• Now on EFS close the first window so you are back to the empty screen with the explore button at the top. Click "explore" again, the small empty box will reappear.
• Now when you connect your phone you will have about 3 seconds to tick the box that appears in the top left of the small box and then hit connect in the bottom right of the small box. If a warning appears and says something about a port, just disconnect and reconnect your phone.
• Once connected you will see your phones files in the top half of the screen.
• Make sure that the bottom half is still showing the folder you named earlier.
• In the top half, right click LGAPP and click re-name, LGAPP(text) should turn blue. Now type TOTO and click in an empty space until it is no longer blue
• Right click TOTO and choose refresh. This enables you to copy the protected files in your phone
• DO NOT RENAME TO SOMETHING BLANK!!
• Your phone will disconnect itself
  
• You will get a yellow screen don't panic, just reconnect
• You will notice that a "ghost" LGAPP folder has appeared, ignore it
• Now right click on TOTO and choose "read", after a few seconds your files will start to copy to your pc, this will take about 40 minutes, so sit back, go watch tv or somethin just don't turn off your pc or your phone, in fact, don't touch either.
• Once this has finished you will have a copy of your own firmware backed up. Save this at all costs, put it on a memory stick or somethin.
• In the top left section scroll all the way to the top and click the folder with no name (very top one) you should now see TOTO again in the top right section.
• Right click on TOTO and rename back to LGAPP, then right click and refresh again.
• Now click on "Disconnect" on the middle bar and choose "yes" from the pop-up. Your phone will now reboot. Thats it your done.

Installing Theme Manager (Video Tutorial here)
Now it has occured to me that to install Theme Manager there is no need to rename LGAPP at all as the files you need to replace are not protected, so Once you have a full backup of your firmware then you shouldn't really need to rename LGAPP again.

Ok down to business

• Open the EFS program, but don't connect your phone yet. You will see a large empty screen with an "explore" button on the top bar, press this.
• A smaller empty box will open in the middle, click cancel on this one.
• You will notice that the screen is now split into 4 sections. In the bottom half is your Pc's files, the top half will show your phones files once we are connected.
• In the bottom left section you will need to find where you have saved Theme Manager and open so it displays the files in the bottom right section.

For Installing using memory card

• You will see 4 files and 1 folder; Themes folder (which we will ignore for now), theme_bg2.swf, widget2.swf, widget4.swf and nyx_viewtyx.swf
• In the top right section, open LGAPP by double clicking
• Then open "Media" and scroll down to "swf" and open this
• The first folder showing should be "theme", open this folder, you will see "theme_bg1,2,3 and 4
• In the bottom right section, right click on "theme_bg2.swf" from TM and click "write", this will copy over
• In the top left section, find the "swf" folder and click, this will take you back a step so you see a list of files starting with the "theme" folder again
• In the bottom right section, one-by-one, right click and "write" the files "widget2.swf", "widget4.swf" and the nyx file, these will also copy over
• Now in the top left section, scroll up to the top and click the very top folder that has no name you should see LGAPP again in the top right box
• Right click in an empty space and click refresh
  
• Then in the middle bar, click "disconnect" and choose yes from the pop-up, your phone will now restart/reboot
• You can now close EFS, and disconnect your phone from the cable
• Now put your phone into "Mass storage mode" by going to Settings-phone settings-connectivity-USB connection mode-mass storage
• Now open "My Computer" on your pc and you should see "removable disk(?)" for XP, or MMCroot for Vista, don't open this yet
• Now in another window find where you saved Theme Manager, and drag-and-drop the "themes" folder onto "removable disk(?)" or "MMCroot", and you should see the files copy to your memory card
• Once this is finished open the removable disk/MMCroot and right click the new "Themes" folder
• Choose the last option in the popup, should be folder options or properties, you should see a tick box to hide files
• Click this and choose the option to hide folder and all sub-folders
• You should now see that the "Themes" folder is faded
• You can now unplug your phone
• Now, on your Viewty, go to Settings-Phone settings-Screen-Handset theme and choose the silver theme, return to the home screen
• Now double tap the "C" key between the red and green keys and hey presto, theme selector!

For installing as a standalone theme to the phones memory
Basically the only differences to the method above is that when you copy "theme_bg2.swf" into the "theme" folder, you also copy the "themes" folder from TM in the bottom right section into the "theme" folder aswell, instead of the memory card. Once copied, open the Themelist.txt in the "Themes" folder you just added and change the locations from "0" to "1" so that TM knows to look in the phones memory for the themes.

[Nazaroth]

For changing Firmware

• Open the EFS program, but don't connect your phone yet. You will see a large empty screen with an "explore" button on the top bar, press this.
• A smaller empty box will open in the middle, click cancel on this one.
• You will notice that the screen is now split into 4 sections. In the bottom half is your Pc's files, the top half will show your phones files once we are connected.
• In the bottom left section, find your desktop where you saved the new file that you named before. Open the desktop folder and then open the newly named file, the bottom right section should be empty.
• Now, put your phone into "Data mode" by going to Settings-Phone settings-Connectivity-USB connection mode-Data mode. Return to the home screen.
• Now on EFS close the first window so you are back to the empty screen with the explore button at the top. Click "explore" again, the small empty box will reappear.
• Now when you connect your phone you will have about 3 seconds to tick the box that appears in the top left of the small box and then hit connect in the bottom right of the small box. If a warning appears and says something about a port, just disconnect and reconnect your phone.
• Once connected you will see your phones files in the top half of the screen.
• Make sure that the bottom half is still showing the folder you named earlier.
• In the top half, right click LGAPP and click re-name, LGAPP(text) should turn blue. Now type TOTO and click in an empty space until it is no longer blue
• Right click TOTO and choose refresh. This enables you to copy the protected files in your phone
• DO NOT RENAME TO SOMETHING BLANK!!
  
• Your phone will disconnect itself
  
• You will get a yellow screen don't panic, just reconnect
• You will notice that a "ghost" LGAPP folder has appeared, ignore it
• In the bottom left section you will need to find where you have saved your new firmware and open so it displays the files in the bottom right section.
• In the bottom right section, you should see the folders from your downloaded firmware
• First you will need to make the file "flex.ini" in your new firmware, look exactly like the one in your existing firmware
• This can be found in LGAPP/Media/Flex
• It is basically just changing the country code and your operator code, a list of these are in the "flex.ini" file for you to refer to, an example is below, it shows the flex for Three in the uk;

THREE(GB)

FLEX_COUNTRY_CODE=234
FLEX_MNC_CODE=10
FLEX_OPERATOR_CODE=1


;FLEX_COUNTRY_CODE 234:GB(UK), 222:IT(Italy), 454:HK(Hong Kong), 240:SE(Sweden), 505:AU(Australia), 232:AT(Austria), 262:DE(Germany),
;                  450:KR(Korea LG Lab), 208:FR(France), 214:ES(Spain), 204:NL(The Netherlands), 230:CZ(Czech), 219:HR(Croatia),
;                  216:HU(Hungary), 260:PL(Poland), 231:SK(Slovakia), 238:DK(Denmark), 206:BE(Belgium), 602:EG(Egypt), 
;                  202:GR(Greece), 274:IS(Iceland), 272:IE(Ireland), 278:MT(Malta), 530:NZ(New Zealand), 268:PT(Portugal),
;                  226:RO(Romania), 293:SI(Slovenia), 655:ZA(South Africa), 228:CH(Switzerland), 284:BG(Bulgaria)      
;

• In the top right section, open TOTO, you will see a set of folders that are named just like the ones in the bottom right section
• In the bottom right section, one-by-one right click and "write" these folders to the phone, BUT DO NOT COPY THE PXO OR MODULE FOLDERS, doing this could disable your camera afterwards.
• Once all these folders have been copied over
• In the top left section scroll all the way to the top and click the folder with no name (very top one) you should now see TOTO again in the top right section.
• Right click on TOTO and rename back to LGAPP, then right click and refresh again.
• Now click on "Disconnect" on the middle bar and choose "yes" from the pop-up. Your phone will now reboot. Thats it your done.

Ok, by following these step by step instructions you shouldn't go wrong

Credits; Thanks to DaveOrNoDave for Theme Manager

I or Ku990.co.uk do not take any responsibility for bricked phones. This is only a guide and the user has a choice whether to follow it or not.

[Nazaroth]

Ok, in addition to the above guide i thought i should include an easy guide to adding themes to TM3.2 and handling the themelist.txt

Step 1

TM3.2 is saved on my phones memory

• Ok download the theme that you want to add and extract it, make sure it is in it's own folder, should be named the same as the theme, e.g Cube3D
• Open this folder, you will see a few files, one of them will be the main .swf, make a note of what this is called.
• Now in the same way that you installed theme manager just write the folder to the theme folder inside LGAPP/Media/swf,(use "data mode"), shouldn't be any need to rename LGAPP this time, but if you have to then follow the guide above for doing this.(follow step 2)

TM3.2 is saved on my memory card

• Same as above, download and extract the new theme to it's own folder.
• Then connect your phone in "mass storage mode" and open the location for your mem card and just drag and drop the folder into the themes folder in your mem card. (follow step 2)

Step 2
Now open the themelist.txt and go to the last theme in the list;

     <frogs          ThemeName="frogs"          Location="0"          FolderName="frogs"          FileName="theme_bg2.swf"          />
 <africa         ThemeName="africa"         Location="0"          FolderName="africa"          FileName="theme_bg2.swf"          />
              <apple_watch          ThemeName="apple watch"          Location="0"          FolderName="apple watch"          FileName="theme_bg2.swf"          />
              <bug's_life           ThemeName="bug's life"             Location="0"    FolderName="bug's life"            FileName="theme_bg2.swf"    />
    <cats                       ThemeName="cats"             Location="0"    FolderName="cats"            FileName="theme_bg2.swf"    />

    <frogy                      ThemeName="frogy"                  Location="0"    FolderName="frogy"            FileName="theme_bg2.swf"    />
    <Best_Wallpapers         ThemeName="Best Wallpapers"   Location="0"    FolderName="Best Wallpapers"    FileName="theme_bg2.swf"    />
    <digit                             ThemeName="digit"                  Location="0"    FolderName="digit"            FileName="theme_bg2.swf"    />
             <slideshow                  ThemeName="slideshow"        Location="0"   FolderName="slideshow"    FileName="slideshow.swf"        />

    <ViewtyX                    ThemeName="Viewty X"          NYX="1"        FileName="nyx_viewtyx.swf"        />
    <DefaultNYX             ThemeName="Default NYX"     NYX="0"     FileName="CHANGE TO DEFAULT NYX FILE NAME, AND CHANGE NYX 0 TO 1" />




</ThemeList>

In this case it is "slideshow"

Start a new line underneath it, for this example we will add Cube3D, where the main .swf file is named Cube3D.swf;

 <frogs                       ThemeName="frogs"             Location="0"    FolderName="frogs"            FileName="theme_bg2.swf"    />
    <africa                       ThemeName="africa"             Location="0"    FolderName="africa"            FileName="theme_bg2.swf"    />
    <apple_watch           ThemeName="apple watch"             Location="0"    FolderName="apple watch"     FileName="theme_bg2.swf"    />
    <bug's_life           ThemeName="bug's life"             Location="0"    FolderName="bug's life"            FileName="theme_bg2.swf"    />
    <cats                       ThemeName="cats"             Location="0"    FolderName="cats"            FileName="theme_bg2.swf"    />

    <frogy                      ThemeName="frogy"                  Location="0"    FolderName="frogy"            FileName="theme_bg2.swf"    />
    <Best_Wallpapers         ThemeName="Best Wallpapers"   Location="0"    FolderName="Best Wallpapers"    FileName="theme_bg2.swf"    />
    <digit                             ThemeName="digit"                  Location="0"    FolderName="digit"            FileName="theme_bg2.swf"    />
            <slideshow                  ThemeName="slideshow"        Location="0"   FolderName="slideshow"    FileName="slideshow.swf"        />
             <Cube3D                      ThemeName="Cube3D"               Location="0"     FolderName="Cube3D"          FileName="Cube3D"                     />
 
    <ViewtyX                    ThemeName="Viewty X"          NYX="1"        FileName="nyx_viewtyx.swf"        />
    <DefaultNYX             ThemeName="Default NYX"     NYX="0"     FileName="CHANGE TO DEFAULT NYX FILE NAME, AND CHANGE NYX 0 TO 1" />

Obviously the spacing will be different to the above examples, just follow the spacing of the themes above your new one

Make sure that the location is set like so;

• Phone memory = "1"
• Memory card = "0"

Also ensure that all < " = / signs are included as one missing symbol will stop the theme from working

Always save the themelist.txt before you exit - File - save

That's it

[drfareed]

Originally Posted by Andy51081

For changing Firmware

• Open the EFS program, but don't connect your phone yet. You will see a large empty screen with an "explore" button on the top bar, press this.
• A smaller empty box will open in the middle, click cancel on this one.
• You will notice that the screen is now split into 4 sections. In the bottom half is your Pc's files, the top half will show your phones files once we are connected.
• In the bottom left section, find your desktop where you saved the new file that you named before. Open the desktop folder and then open the newly named file, the bottom right section should be empty.
• Now, put your phone into "Data mode" by going to Settings-Phone settings-Connectivity-USB connection mode-Data mode. Return to the home screen.
• Now on EFS close the first window so you are back to the empty screen with the explore button at the top. Click "explore" again, the small empty box will reappear.
• Now when you connect your phone you will have about 3 seconds to tick the box that appears in the top left of the small box and then hit connect in the bottom right of the small box. If a warning appears and says something about a port, just disconnect and reconnect your phone.
• Once connected you will see your phones files in the top half of the screen.
• Make sure that the bottom half is still showing the folder you named earlier.
• In the top half, right click LGAPP and click re-name, LGAPP(text) should turn blue. Now type TOTO and click in an empty space until it is no longer blue
• Right click TOTO and choose refresh. This enables you to copy the protected files in your phone
• DO NOT RENAME TO SOMETHING BLANK!!
  
• Your phone will disconnect itself
  
• You will get a yellow screen don't panic, just reconnect
• You will notice that a "ghost" LGAPP folder has appeared, ignore it
• In the bottom left section you will need to find where you have saved your new firmware and open so it displays the files in the bottom right section.
• In the bottom right section, you should see the folders from your downloaded firmware
• First you will need to make the file "flex.ini" in your new firmware, look exactly like the one in your existing firmware
• This can be found in LGAPP/Media/Flex
• It is basically just changing the country code and your operator code, a list of these are in the "flex.ini" file for you to refer to, an example is below, it shows the flex for Three in the uk;

THREE(GB)

FLEX_COUNTRY_CODE=234
FLEX_MNC_CODE=10
FLEX_OPERATOR_CODE=1


;FLEX_COUNTRY_CODE 234:GB(UK), 222:IT(Italy), 454:HK(Hong Kong), 240:SE(Sweden), 505:AU(Australia), 232:AT(Austria), 262:DE(Germany),
;                  450:KR(Korea LG Lab), 208:FR(France), 214:ES(Spain), 204:NL(The Netherlands), 230:CZ(Czech), 219:HR(Croatia),
;                  216:HU(Hungary), 260:PL(Poland), 231:SK(Slovakia), 238:DK(Denmark), 206:BE(Belgium), 602:EG(Egypt), 
;                  202:GR(Greece), 274:IS(Iceland), 272:IE(Ireland), 278:MT(Malta), 530:NZ(New Zealand), 268:PT(Portugal),
;                  226:RO(Romania), 293:SI(Slovenia), 655:ZA(South Africa), 228:CH(Switzerland), 284:BG(Bulgaria)      
;

• In the top right section, open TOTO, you will see a set of folders that are named just like the ones in the bottom right section
• In the bottom right section, one-by-one right click and "write" these folders to the phone, BUT DO NOT COPY THE PXO OR MODULE FOLDERS, doing this could disable your camera afterwards.
• Once all these folders have been copied over
• In the top left section scroll all the way to the top and click the folder with no name (very top one) you should now see TOTO again in the top right section.
• Right click on TOTO and rename back to LGAPP, then right click and refresh again.
• Now click on "Disconnect" on the middle bar and choose "yes" from the pop-up. Your phone will now reboot. Thats it your done.

Ok, by following these step by step instructions you shouldn't go wrong

Credits; Thanks to DaveOrNoDave for Theme Manager

I or Ku990.co.uk do not take any responsibility for bricked phones. This is only a guide and the user has a choice whether to follow it or not.

Hi, I have done everything as written by you but I did one mistake I copied the PXO folder of new Firmware too and my Touch screen stoped responding so then I decided to come back to my origenal firmware I copied all my backup files including PXO folder now my phone works fine but one thing I am unable to understand is after every thing is done and after the phone restarted I connect it again through EFS to see if everything is in place but I found that the PXO folder is empty there were no files in it I copied the PXO folder again from my origenal firmware but then again after restarting there were no files in the PXO folder so please tell me is it normal or I am doing something wrong.Thanks

[infernal523]

hey
i was trying to backup my firm wire by the renaming method...i renamed LGAPP wrongly and now when i connect my phone and explore it using EFS explorer it says directory dosent exist...my phone is working perfectly fine but i wanted to install themes

it would be great if any1 would help

[Katina F]

Heya!
Silly noob question, but I have a Viewty and I'd like to have a tinker and try out this whole 'firmware' rage that's going on. I just wanted to be absolutely sure before I gave it a shot that the U990 (which is the phone I currently have) is for sure the same as 'KU990'. It'd be horrible if I found out there was some tiny nuance between the two and it killed everything.

[Nazaroth]

Firstly, yes they are the same, 100%

Secondly, THERE ARE NO UPGRADES OR UPDATES if it ain't broke don't fix it.

There is nothing to be gained by changing firmware

[ukwrestler]

Hi,

Just wanted to write and say thanks for the super informative videos on how to install these themes etc. I am a complete noob, and the videos you gave guided me all the way through very clearly into installing everything on to my phone with out causing damage! I have been trying for months to get the themes on my phone, and coming across this post, I have done it in one night!!

Thanks again

Danny

[bSeanty]

Hey, I've just installed the v10e Unbranded firmware onto my O2 Viewty and the O2 branding that used to be in the top right of my home screen has moved right at the bottom in the centre which means whenever I try to press a menu button on the home screen, it goes to the O2 service website. Anyway to solve this or get rid of that annoying O2 box altogether?

EDIT: Okay so I managed to sort out the problem of the O2 logo placement, but it's still there. How do I get rid of it?

[matenol]

Originally Posted by bSeanty

Hey, I've just installed the v10e Unbranded firmware onto my O2 Viewty and the O2 branding that used to be in the top right of my home screen has moved right at the bottom in the centre which means whenever I try to press a menu button on the home screen, it goes to the O2 service website. Anyway to solve this or get rid of that annoying O2 box altogether?

EDIT: Okay so I managed to sort out the problem of the O2 logo placement, but it's still there. How do I get rid of it?

You have to find new file "Nyx_Open_menu", cause you have now Nyx_orange_menu" i think. Just replace this one and logo's gone.