I am one of those people who like to customize their phones a little too much. I happen to have an LG SU640 (Optimus LTE) . A mighty good phone but somehow it didn't get the due attention at the time of release.
Anyways, so I have never kept stock on my phone for more than 4 days in a row. The only time I am on stock is actually when I have to recover my phone from a dead state. Personally I prefer cyanogenmod roms, specifically
paranoid android by utacka. But I have found CM Roms to be lacking the spice of the appearance. So I have come up with a perfect mix of apps to overcome that. And here they are.
SMS
GoSms. People at Go Dev have produced really awesome apps.