adding icons for no pics icon java app/game .

[cubicon]

hi guys ... have a few java apps or games that are without any icons ... find them abit eye sore ... so i tried to mess ard ... see can get any icon or not ...

this is what i did but still cant get anything .

first i use this txt editor , ultraedit , to explore .
i have 2 java games , yeti sport(with icon) and bejewel (no icon).
i open up ultraedit and went to their respective /diska/.system/java/DownloadApps/MIDletXXXXX/registry.txt file .

i notice bejewel was missing this : Suite-Icon , so i made a .png file and do the changes .

unplug my usb and reset the phone ... but nothing show up . is there anything i'm doin wrongly ?? pls advice .

Cheers

[maxx_730]

This is the way to change java app icons:
1. Open the .jar game of the game you want to install with WinRar
2. Inside, there's a folder META-INF, which contains a file called MANIFEST.MF.
3. Double click it, then winrar opens notepad to show it, or copy it to some folder and open it from there.
4. There's a line MIDlet-Icon: in the file, look what it says, for example MIDlet-Icon: /icon.png
5. Go to the main folder of the jar file (or if its other then /, the corresponding folder.
6. Copy the image file out of the jar.
7. Edit it.
8. Place it back as icon.png, call the old one icon.bak or something.
9. Install the .jar file and check if it worked.
10. If not, check if you followed the steps correctly.

Ps: If the MANIFEST.MF file doesnt contain the line MIDlet-Icon:, you can just add that.
Hope this helped

[cubicon]

how do i repack the files ?

[kogan01]

Try this :
1. Choose the application or game that you'll change its icon.
2. For every apps/games, there's the file called registry.txt in : system>java>am>Downloadapps>Midlet.
Open it using wordpad and make sure the last word is /MIDlet-1.png, example:
Suite-Icon: /mmc/mmca1/.system/java/DownloadApps/MIDlet60048/Files/MIDlet-1.png
And change the last row from registry.txt file with Files/MIDlet-1.png , example :
MIDlet-1: SpruceChess, /mmc/mmca1/.system/java/DownloadApps/MIDlet60048/Files/MIDlet-1.png, org.spruce.midp.chess.SpruceChessMidlet
3. Make an icon up to you with png extension from jpeg or bmp file ( you can use the edit facility from ACDSee) size : 12x10;
20x20 or 30x25. Save it as MIDlet-1.png
4. Copy it to : system>java>am>Downloadapps>Midlet>Files>
Make sure in the right place or in The Midlet that you wanna change the icon.
5. Open file InstRemoveableDB. Find in what AppLinkRecord that app/game.
Write in > Big icon = ;with Files/MIDlet-1.png
Icon = ;with Files/MIDlet-1.png
Finish restart your phone.

[maxx_730]

how do i repack the files ?

you dont have to repack the files. just copy the the icon you want to edit out of the .jar (when exploring jar with winrar, select the file and press ctrl+c(windows)), then when finished delete the icon in the jar, or rename it or sumthing and then use ctrl+V to paste the edited icon into the .jar file.. Kogan's way is also an option but then youll have to do that every time you reinstall am app. with my way, itll be the edited one verytime you reinstall the app.

[cubicon]

my java games cant be found in InstRemoveableDB leh ??

[maxx_730]

theyre only in installeddb if you've installed them to the sd card. If they are installed to the phone memory, youll have to edit installeddb in /ezxlocal/appwrite/java/am or something like that (dont really remember).

[cubicon]

thru telnet for phone memory ?

[maxx_730]

yep. but why not try my way, much easier.

[cubicon]

yeaho ... maxx ... thanks ... got it to work