[V2.5][GUIDE] Locked Bootloader Mods(: - LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769

Okay, so first off, I'd like to thank the people who made this thread possible, even though only one of them knows me aha!
1.) @cmahendra (For his TOP NOTCH guide on flashing KDZ files, which I have used a LOT)
2.) @artas182x (For his tweak pack on his website and his locked bootloader recovery installer)
3.) @carloswii5 (Because he's awesome. And he speaks Spanish. And he cared enough to make an amazing video tutorial on how to unlock your bootloader)
4.) @Lelus (He's Lelus. Need I say more?)
5.) @mateo1111 (His notification bar mods are inexpensable)
6.) @jhotmann (For sharing my favorite boot animation)
7.) @Cameron581 (For contributing ALOT. You're awesome man. Stay blessed. )
8.) @Biodesigner48 (For bringing Pie Controls to my attention, and being a great guy)
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THANKS GUYS!
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Also, mods, with all due respect, is there any way we could have this thread stickied if it takes off? I feel it has some useful resources for new/confused/troubled owners, as well as the majority of us as well.
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BEFORE YOU READ ANYTHING
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Remember to post or message me relevant details/items/information to place in here! I don't know what everyone wants or experiences issues with!
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Okay, so FIRST OFF, I'd like to avoid any flak I may take for this guide lol. Also, I'm not gay or anything. I just prefer not to sound boring and unclear, unlike a lot of people aha. Before you start saying, "CyanogenMod iz da [email protected][email protected]!" and "Yew suk newb unlok yew bootlodah!," I'd like to point out that SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH there are a lot of people here who haven't been able to unlock their bootloader, thanks widely to T-Mobile USA. -.- So there are many people who have root and recovery, but are unable to install ROMs and feel unsafe flashing European phone versions, only to mess up and screw over their phone's digitizer with no knowledge of how to fix it! (lol) Anyways, if that's you.. THIS THREAD IS FOR YOU!
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I've heard your cries. I've heard of how you hate the stock UI. I've heard of how you want to theme. I've heard of how you want to flash your phone so far into oblivion until the point where it only shares physical characteristics with the other... stock (ewww) L9's. And here's how to do it! This is going to take some time, and it won't be a perfect thread as it's one of my first. However, I hope I can suit it up into nice sections for you!
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Table of Contents-
Thread Information
Beginning Steps/Prerequisites
Customization Mods/Tweaks
App Necessities
Memory Management
Performance Mods/Tweaks
My Personal Setup
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Thread Information
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Version 2.5 - Updated with more relevant info, added Team Blackout and Transparent statusbar (December 22nd, 2013) (Merry Christmas!)
Version 2.0 - Updated release, more relevant info, layout changed, new section added (October 16th, 2013)
Version 1.0 - Initial release, rudimentary, minimal layout. (July 27th, 2013)
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Beginning Steps/Prerequisites
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Alright, so to all you experienced users, disregard this section aha! Basically I'm teaching you how to root and gain CWM access in a broad 3 step process. Enjoy!
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STEP 1.) Root your phone. If you're on JB, use THIS METHOD. You don't need to do the spritebud check, just run the application provided and it should root you. After you do this, install the Superuser app from the Play Store that was developed by CLOCKWORKMOD, and start it and select "install" on the popup dialog. If it failed to install the binaries, run the LGPwn application again and do it a couple more times until it works, if it doesn't, ask for help on his thread.
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STEP 2.) Install busybox and CWM. Go to the Play Store and download the BusyBox app made by Stericson, and install busybox. Then go into Artas' L9 Recovery Installer, and install that. You can find the recovery HERE.
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STEP 3.) When you power on your phone, the LEDs should flash repeatedly for about 3-5 seconds, in order to enter CWM Recovery, press the VOL DOWN button and it should load up the menu. DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING YOU AREN'T SURE ABOUT.
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Congratz! You're all set and ready to make this phone FLY! Read on little dude!
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Customization Mods/Tweaks
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Before you freak out, yes there is customization with rooted phones that doesn't require an unlocked bootloader! The best of which is done using the Xposed Framework, a guide that I made HERE. Check out that guide, it's also a work in progress and YES, I know, it looks hideous. I'm not good at formatting on forum posts, but HEY. I'm learning.
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Alright, so you've either continued to read here because... 1.) You're a rebel who didn't click the LINK DARN YOU, 2.) You've themed your phone with Xposed (AWESOME), or 3.) You didn't want to because you're a BORING LAZY POOPFACE. With that being said, ever seen those stupid QSlide apps that you MAY or MAY NOT use? You can't remove them on stock. They take up space and make it look all.. blegh. BUT! There's this really awesome guy named @mateo1111 who created a mod to remove those pesky space-wasters from your precious notifications! AND, if that wasn't enough, he created a mod to make your notification bar PITCH BLACK. It looks absolutely, undeniably, SICK. Here's the links to each of his posts.
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REMOVE QSLIDE APPS
BLACK NOTIFICATIONS
TRANSPARENT NOTIFICATIONS
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Also, @Cameron581 has contributed! He created a status bar to look like Sense, it's available for download HERE. Thanks man! I'm liking you.
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Now, there are also modified applications available, in various colors and formats. I personally am a huge fan of transparency, as I use a setup with a (usually) galactic wallpaper, and set that as my keyboard background using "Kii," and have my epic background in all the apps I use But how would I do that? Well, "Team Blackout" has made it easier than ever! I'll leave links to their stuff below I highly recommend their things, and they actually complete orders and requests. It's amazing, and I can't turn back to the bright white and ugly color schemes that Google uses in their applications. Check these out guys
Team Blackout Thread (Information, questions)
Team Blackout Website (Tutorials, Requests, News)
Team Blackout Facebook (Tests, New apps, Betas, News)
Team Blackout Updater APP
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Apps Necessities
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There's a TON of apps in the Play Store (More than iOS now W00T!), but the best are often hidden among the popular Chinese ones filled with advertisements. (Go Dev, I'm looking at you.) So without further ado, here are the applications that I absolutely recommend without a doubt to ANYONE with this phone, or any phone, for that matter.
Textra - This is a given. It's a texting replacement app, and its ingenious Group Chat feature is unrivaled and is cross-platform. It even has an amazing feature to turn on data only when sending/receiving MMS. Amazing. Also, it looks a lot like the "Kik" app if you know what that is. I personally am not a fan of that iOS/Android-blend kinda UI, but it's doable I guess. I recommend using Hangouts for SMS now.
Next Browser - Wow, Go Dev Team actually made a decent piece of software for once! Don't get me wrong, I'm no developer, and couldn't do any better, but their applications are bloated into eternity. Sadly, I've watched this browser get more bloated slowly and slowly, but at least they haven't advertised their other apps in it yet. ANYWAYS, this browser is really fast and smooth, but doesn't sync across devices like Opera/Chrome/Firefox, so sorry to multi-device fanatics.
A replacement launcher - Smart Launcher, Apex, Nova, Holo, Action, anything but the stock LG Home. Please. It's too slow and wastes RAM, and is kinda blegh in my opinion. But to each their own.
Duolingo - Learn a language. Seriously. Do it. It's fun on here. The tools are amazing and it's simply... simple. Spanish/Italian/Portuguese/German/French, and more being added in time. You can also learn English, but I don't see how you'd be reading this..
Bible - Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, and do not take this as an offense, however, if you are a Christian, this is the most useful spiritual tool you can get on Android "Got Questions" is another good one.
Kii Keyboard - Simply the best. If you know how to use the "Freedom" app, you can crack the in-app purchase to get the full version, not that I recommend it. I've used this since the beta in January (I think it was January) and it's simply gotten better and better. Swype couldn't lure me back.
Music - Omich Player is the best music player on Android, if you want to listen to music. There's apps with 50 different equalizers and a ton of crap I don't want, when I just want my music. This one does just that, using the older Play Music style. It also sports an option for a transparent background.
WifiKill - It kills Wifi. Kicks people off of the network using a simple, yet effective, ARP spoofing method. It literally takes a touch of a button. Great fun when in school or university, and you feel like messing with the teacher or
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Ilxaot said:
Oh, so you do want to play games, eh? NERD. Kidding. Anyways, here's what you gotta do. Go HERE and see the second post. Flash it in CWM Recovery (You did install that, right?) and go to "Settings -> Storage" LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE HEHE. Side note: If your SD Card is less than a Class 10, apps installed there won't run as fast as they would on the system. So if you truly have no need for extra memory, please don't do this with a bad SD card just for lulz ahaha
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This information is outdated, this only works for ice cream ROMs
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kuma82 said:
This information is outdated, this only works for ice cream ROMs
Sent from my LG-P769 using xda app-developers app
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It worked on my phone I thought. Where is the other zip at? There was one like that and it was to swap memories.
EDIT: I FOUND THE RIGHT ZIP. Thanks for pointing this out mate, kudos.

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thanks man
thanks man, i love this i like stalk but i always hated how the status bar was but thankks to you i like all of this is aamazing i will try the scripts after this.

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Alright no problem man. Glad I helped
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Ilxaot said:
Alright no problem man. Glad I helped
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Is there a mod for switching our status bar to an s3 or s4 status bar?
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Thanks a lot.
Works great!

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Removing T-Mobile My Account will have zero adverse effects on your phone, it's just bloatware and can be downloaded on the Play Store if need be.
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the lunar is here for download
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yhn59g6xewrmv4o/LunarUI_port.apk

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geeshiet said:
Is there a mod for switching our status bar to an s3 or s4 status bar?
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I'm sure there's an S3/S4 CyanogenMod theme, if there is we can port it and I'd be glad to help you. If there isn't, you can try another.
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Thanks a lot.
Works great!
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Glad to help mate!
TheCoutures said:
Removing T-Mobile My Account will have zero adverse effects on your phone, it's just bloatware and can be downloaded on the Play Store if need be.
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Woah, you serious? I heard somebody did it and it glitched out their billing or something. Have you removed it? I don't want to edit it without knowledge.
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the lunar is here for download
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yhn59g6xewrmv4o/LunarUI_port.apk
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Thanks man! Would it be okay for me to mirror that in the original post and give you credit?

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Sure its not mine I just found it
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im working on my own status bar color that looks more like sense and i might revert the pulldown so its just not looking so weird lol im checking to see if i got my status bar color working
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got it working, if anyone wants to test send me a pm or reply if you want a test i am just about done right now i am flashing

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v20F??
so does this work on v20f????

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Cameron581 said:
Sure its not mine I just found it
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im working on my own status bar color that looks more like sense and i might revert the pulldown so its just not looking so weird lol im checking to see if i got my status bar color working
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got it working, if anyone wants to test send me a pm or reply if you want a test i am just about done right now i am flashing
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I tested it, it worked fine on V20F Want me to post the link on here and give you credits? Or, you could make a thread of your own in the "Development" section and I could provide the link to your thread for the download.
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so does this work on v20f????
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Yes, these all work great on V20F.

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I'm horrible at guides lol u can post do you like it though?
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Cameron581 said:
I'm horrible at guides lol u can post do you like it though?
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Yeah it looks like Sense I'm still using my black, but I have it saved so I'm going to switch when I get around to re-theming my phone aha Also, do you have any experience with theming stock ROMs?

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TheCoutures said:
Removing T-Mobile My Account will have zero adverse effects on your phone, it's just bloatware and can be downloaded on the Play Store if need be.
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Yes I have removed it and have had zero problems with my bill.
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Nope I do have experience with Roms lol I Dev for the at&t fusion 2
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TheCoutures said:
Yes I have removed it and have had zero problems with my bill.
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I'll fix it, thanks. Kudos.

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I tried flashing the CM10 messaging app (the one that says mmsstock.apk) and it's not showing me anything different, even though it says it was a success. Any ideas?

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Cromzz said:
I tried flashing the CM10 messaging app (the one that says mmsstock.apk) and it's not showing me anything different, even though it says it was a success. Any ideas?
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im working on a fix for the messaging apps right now ik what i have to do lol im also attempting to do the phone and contacts but i screwed my contacts up for my sd card with my back up crashed so if anyone could send me a copy of their lgcontacts3.apk that would be sweet
EDIT: i do not believe flashable zips work, i manually installed mine all you have to do is go into rootbrowser move/ copy unimessagebin.apk to a sd card then take the mms.apk rename it unimessagebin.apk and paste it into system apps
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Cameron581 said:
im working on a fix for the messaging apps right now ik what i have to do lol im also attempting to do the phone and contacts but i screwed my contacts up for my sd card with my back up crashed so if anyone could send me a copy of their lgcontacts3.apk that would be sweet
EDIT: i do not believe flashable zips work, i manually installed mine all you have to do is go into rootbrowser move/ copy unimessagebin.apk to a sd card then take the mms.apk rename it unimessagebin.apk and paste it into system apps
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and there is one bug i am going to try and fix it is that the quickreply isnt quickreply it goes back into messaging and then it prompts quick reply? its weird!