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400×240 sized Wallpapers and screen backgrounds

As KU990 Viewty is 400 x 240 in pixel (WQVGA), other handsets with the same resolution can display these wallpapers too. Known handsets with the same resolution include:
LG Cookie KP500, Renoir KC910, Prada KE850
Samsung Omnia i900^*, Pixon M8800
SonyEricsson Xperia X1
K-Touch E60

*Note: 400 x 240 pixel pictures interacts poorly for Omnia i900′s accelerometer, you will need larger pictures to eliminate the black edges

How big is 400×240 is in your screen? We have attached a photo of Ribeauville, Alsace, France for your reference. (If you like it, feel free to use it as your phone background.)

When we search the net, we found a massive load of screen background (swf) and wallpapers (jpg) for Viewty which you might want to see. High quality good stuff. http://www.reptilis.org/Viewty/index

iPhone/Tocco/Diamond whatever Themes for KU990

Hacking LG KU990.

This phone is known for its flexibility to customize due to the fact that its a massive Flash Player.

Some FAQs for the customization of KU990 (in additional to those you can find in the wiki courtesy of the MyGreatPhone UK)

Q: Can you change the operating system to Windows Mobile?
A: In short: NO WAY. While you can change the layout of almost all the graphics of KU990, its system is totally independent to Windows Mobile.

Q: How about the layout of Windows Mobile?
A: Up to today, there is no themes resembling WM6 to our best knowledge. But there is a similar theme that mimics the TouchFLO of a HTC handset (and they call it “Diamond”), it is yet to be released though.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsul-qHIL48]

Q: And Samsung F480 Tocco?
A: Yes, the official thread here.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBO1tnaL71U]

Q: There must be the ever-popular iPhone theme.
A: True, there are actually a range of options, each one with different scale of similarity to iPhone. One example:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3X_Zj8oPTQ]

How to change the font for LG KU990 Viewty

In our testing machine of LG KU990 (Viewty), there are two font files, one is LG_Vector which is pretty small and contains Latin alphabets like English, the other one is LG_Vector_Gothic which contains other fonts like Chinese.

The English fonts on KU990, “LG_Vector” look nice in most cases, but for Chinese fonts, even the font style is way better than SonyEricsson or Nokia’s defult font, the font style can be improved.

Warning: Inexperienced users might brick the phone during the process. Please stop reading if you are not familiar with the “EFS_MEDIA_BUILDER” software (a software for hacking KU990, more information on MyGreatPhone UK’s wiki). Never try this unless you know what you are doing!

Step 1:
Get your favorite .TTF font, but mind that: 1) it can only be .TTF, no .TTC or .FON files; 2) the font display on phone might shrink for some fonts.

Step 2:
Load the EFS, and use the “TOTO method” to rename the file, i.e. rename the LGAPP folder to TOTO or anything else, as a backup measure. Disconnect and restart the phone.

Don’t panic if you see the yellow “REFRESHING. . .” screen.

Step 3:
Reconnect using EFS, go to TOTO/Media/Font and rename the LG_Vector.ttf (or LG_Vector_Gothic.ttf) to anything else.

Step 4:
Rename your favorite font to LG_Vector.ttf (or LG_Vector_Gothic.ttf) and put into TOTO/Media/Font, and then rename the TOTO folder back to LGAPP. Disconnect and restart and you should see the change.

LG KU990 Viewty Alarm Trick and other tips

Alarm Trick

Viewty has a very user friendly function of the anti-shake button. When the alarm sounds, you can double tap the anti-shake button to make a 5-minute snooze function.

Quite handy if you are lazy to open your eyes to stop the alarm, or if you don’t have glasses on! Sleeping is the most important, after all!

Test Mode

Key in 3845#*990# in dialer pad. Contains modification of ringtones, tweaks on camera, etc. . .
May brick your phone if used properly. Use with extreme caution and at your own risk!!

Using a Micro SDHC Card (MicroSD card with memory greater than 2GB)

It is not possible to use a new MicroSD with capacity greater than 2GB. You will see 0 bytes available for the card memory. To solve this, do the followings:

1. Format the MicroSD card with “FAT32″ format. (Any card reader capable of reading this card) (In Windows XP: Locate the drive, right click and choose “Format”)
2. Fill the card with files (for example, your favorite MP3 songs and movies) until the free space is less than 2.0GB (in manufacturer’s definition, i.e. 2,000,000,000 bytes, which means around 1.9GB in reality)
3. Put the card into the phone and you should be able to use it.

Note that your phone will be slower with larger SD cards. 2GB is optimal, 4GB is okay, and 8GB will be a bit slow. 16GB is not recommended (and not tested by me).

Some useful tips

You might want to visit http://www.mygreatphone.com/wiki/index.php?title=KU990 for some additional tips.