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How to change icons without using a launcher?

If you're rooted you can change anything you want. It'll take some time and a lot of searching/ learning new stuff.

You can decompile the app .apk and swap out the .PNG image for the icon. Problem is you'll need to do each one individually.
Also depends on what version of android you're running. Older versions were relatively easy to do this, now with ICS the apk tool is different and it takes some tweaking to get it set up. I still haven't been able to sit down and spend the time to figure it out.
 
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