@shredman seems to be the wrong thread for your device.

Anyway you can edit every shortcut on the homescreen by long clicking it and then selecting a different icon for it.
Various icon packs can be downloaded/installed or you create them yourself beforehand.
This will survive an update of the app.
Another way is to change the icon in the .apk directly.
Either (before installation):
1. Rename the .apk to .zip open it and go into /res/drawable.
There is the icon for the app.
Exchange it to any other one (carefull about dimensions of the .png!) rechange the extension and install it.
or (after having installed it)
2. open (root needed)
2a for system apps /system/app/... (search there for the name you got from the information about the app.
2b for self installed apps /data/app in look in the appropriate folder for the .apk and change it there.
Update will most likely kill what you've done.