[How To] Change Icons Without Jailbreaking
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 3:33 AM
If you’re interested in theming your iPhone or iPod touch, but don’t have a jailbroken iDevice, there is now a FREE app for that - iPhone Explorer.
Check out the tutorial below.
[How To] Change Your iPhone/iPod touch Icons Without Jailbreaking :
1) Open iPhone Explorer and navigate into the app’s folder, located in /Apps/appname.app/appname.app.app ( appname is the name of the app you want to change and devicename is the name of your device).
2) Within that folder, find the png file that is the icon, named something like icon@2x.png for an iPhone 4, or Icon.png for iPhone 3GS and earlier.
3) Back it up and replace it with your own icon. Make sure the icon is in PNG format and is 114×114 pixels for the iPhone 4, 57×57 for the iPhone 3GS and earlier.
4) Reboot your iDevice.
You should now see the old icon replaced with your new one.
However, this trick works only with 3rd party apps, this means that you are stuck with the icons for apps that come with your iPhone.