Comments on: iPhone firmware 3.0: A quick fix for messed up app icons

By: parker

parker — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:02:31 +0000

Thanks!
Brilliant!
Worked perfectly!
I had 40 problem apps, would have taken forever to delete and re-install.

thanks very, very much!

By: Franklyn Brandley

Franklyn Brandley — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:39:48 +0000

Thanks for the post, I came across it when I was searching adive on how to repair my broken iphone. It

By: The Maverick

The Maverick — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:46:09 +0000

Cool fix. The way I found to fix it is to do the following (Only works on Jailbroken devices):

1. Uninstall the Problem apps.
2. Restart iPhone/iPod
3. Reinstall apps
4. SSH into device and locate the folder that contains the Apps in question.
5. Find the ‘icon.png’ file in each apps folder and change the file permissions to 0444.

This will permanently fix the icon for the app.

By: scotti3g

scotti3g — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:50:48 +0000

You’ve gotta love bizarre “solutions” like this hehe :) But thanks for the tip ;)

Is it only a 3GS thing as I haven’t had it (yet?) on my 3G..