How many Java applications have been installed on your 5230? A lot I think. For today we will discuss the problem with application icon. Some application maybe has been developed great, comes with some nice features inside. The design interface is so good, but wait, the application icon is really bad. Looks like the developer forgot to make good icon for that. Bad icon can ruin the theme that you have. Even with a good theme, your phone will look bad. That’s what I thought.

But have you already know that you can actually change the Java application icon? Bad icon won’t bother you no more. You can follow these simple steps to change the application icon as you want. You can make the icon by yourself if you think that you are capable of doing that, or if you don’t, Google is our best friend. You can always find good resource providing good icon there.

So what are you waiting for, let’s do it:

1. Make a new icon or get the icon from the internet. Make sure that the icon size is not bigger than 100×100 pixels
2. If there’s no *.jad file provided with the *.jar, you can download JAD Maker first. Extract and run the application, click and drag the *.jar file and drop it on the application. Then you will have your *.jad file.
3. Some application doesn’t put the icon file in the root directory. So open the *.jad file comes with the application with a NotePad / WordPad to know the application icon path
4. Rename the new icon same with the icon name that you can get from the path
5. Open the *.jar file with a WinRAR or something similar
6. Find the application icon path, replace the icon file with the new one
7. Make sure to use the update mode: Add and replace files, then click OK
8. Done

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