How to change themes on the LG KF700

The LG KF700's large 3-inch touchscreen offers plenty of visual real estate onscreen, which can be themed to suit your own tastes using images and flash animations supplied by LG. LG has pre-loaded a selection of visuals based on Keith Haring's distinctive vibrant artwork that you can use to transform your Home screen.

Themes can be a package of elements - wallpapers, screensavers, animations and sounds - that can completely change the look and feel of a handset. How many of these elements are included will depend on the type of handset and the particular theme you're installing.

Themes can often be downloaded from mobile makers' own websites, network operators' portals or from specialist sites. They can usually be installed quickly and easily, with just a few key presses. You can get themes catering for a huge range of interests - from favourite football clubs to movies, or from top bands to abstract art, and much, much more.

Unlike Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones, there isn't a one-click way to transform the LG KF700 with your own themed creations or downloaded themes.

In the settings menu, you can choose to change one of the screen themes - with separate options for Home screen, Outgoing call display, Start-up and Shut-down screens. For the Home screen, you can install one of the flash animations or any image from the phone or memory card. For the other screens you can you can swap images with any on the phone or card.

There's also a separate option to change the Handset theme - the menu appearance and background look of the phone - with two options, Sky and Black to choose from.

Changing the Home screen theme to a flash animation

1. Unlock the LG KF700 and click on the main Menu shortcut icon with four dots at the bottom right of the screen (Figure 1)
2. Click on the Settings icon - it looks like a mechanical cog - in the vertical tab bar on the right of the screen (Figure 2)
3. In the Settings menu click on the Screen icon (Figure 3)
4. In the Screen menu click on Screen theme (Figure 4)
   
5. Click on the Home screen option (Figure 5)
6. Select Use existing image. Press OK (Figure 6)
   
7. Select and press Flash contents (Figure 7)
   
8. You now have a list of the flash animations with thumbnails next to them (Figure 8). Scroll through the available themes and click on View to see a preview of the animations (Figure 9), or Insert to install the animation you require. You can toggle between previews and the list by using the back arrow icon.
9. Once you've selected the animation you require and have pressed Insert, your Home screen theme will be changed. An onscreen message confirms this has been done (Figure 10)
10. Press the Home icon on the top right of the screen or call end key to get back to the Home screen. The animation will have changed (Figure 11)

Changing the Handset theme

1. Unlock the LG KF700 and click on the main Menu shortcut icon with four dots at the bottom right of the screen (Figure 1)
2. Click on the Settings icon in the vertical tab bar on the right of the screen (Figure 2)
3. In the Settings menu click on the Screen icon (Figure 3)
4. In the Screen menu click on Handset theme (Figure 12)
   
5. In the Handset theme menu you can select one of the available themes - Black or Sky (Figure 13)
6. Highlight the one you want and press View to preview it or press Save - or tap the highlighted option - to store it.
7. In a few moments your theme will be changed (Figure 14)
8. Press the back arrow to see the changed look and colour of the menus (Figure 15)