You could be right. When I get a new phone the first thing I do is root it then get rid or freeze as much as I possibly can that bears the name google. Likewise the LG is hosted with a load of LG trash which also gets frozen.
Thing is somewhere down the line this has undesired affects on certain apps. God I hate Gapps. What happened to freedom of choice.

So for now I will just have to run it with screen on, at least it works.

I thought about giving Primo a try but its just coming up with
"User interface resolution (1440x2585) is not supported or campatible skin can not be found. Exiting application"