Change default contact pictures? - Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

The default Samsung smiley face icon that shows up for every contact by default is awful.
Is there a way to easily replace it with another image? Is there an app I haven't found, or a flashable icon? I don't want photos synced from social media, and I don't want to manually edit each contact photo. I just want to quickly replace that image with something uniform.
Alternately, what system app is actually involved here? I use DialerOne for contact management, but each entry still points to system contacts with that horrible icon. Is there a dark-themed system app available without changing my whole ROM?
I'm running RicksRom 4.4.4. I've been searching for a solution without success.

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I assume this would be appropriate in the development forum, move it if it isn't.
Would it be possible to replace notification icons (one at a time) using root explorer in r/w mode? It seems that if you find an icon that you would prefer, name it exactly as the one that is being replaced, then remove the old one from framework-res.apk/res(whatever you are replacing), and paste the new one there, it would work. Right?
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duckredbeard said:
I assume this would be appropriate in the development forum, move it if it isn't.
Would it be possible to replace notification icons (one at a time) using root explorer in r/w mode? It seems that if you find an icon that you would prefer, name it exactly as the one that is being replaced, then remove the old one from framework-res.apk/res(whatever you are replacing), and paste the new one there, it would work. Right?
Should this be done on a "test" ROM using a PC, then flashed to the Aria? Would those paths be available if you navigated into the ROM using Windows Explorer?
I have used the UOT kitchen, but I don't want entire icon sets. If I select them individually, would they replace only those that are of identical notification value? Would it replace the BT connected icon with comprable icon, but only that icon, leaving the rest of the stock Sense set intact?
I am also interested in replacing notification icons that are packaged in Tasker. I would do the same process, navigating into that app. Should I try this or is it known to be impossible?
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What ROM are you using? I did exactly what you described on CM6.1, replacing some status bar icons with their Sense equivalents.
I was even able to replace some notification icons in apps such as Music, Gmail, Email, etc.
I used Theme-Pro to do it and pushed all changes to phone in Recovery mode:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=781305
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=729867
I'm a big fan of the many ADB "helper" applications on XDA, search around.
Tyr it, if you make a Nandroid backup, you've got nothing to lose, right?

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