Apps Icons losing Retina display?

I've recently downloaded a couple of new apps that the App Icon are not displaying the retina display. What is odd is that in the App Store it looks normal and even while it's downloading it looks normal, but once it is loaded, it looks blurry. Anyone know what is causing this?
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WITHOUT needing to jailbreak, you can CHANGE your THIRD PARTY apps. I've been doing this, on a ALWAYS VIRGIN iPhone 4.
http://lifehacker.com/#!5647008/change-your-iphones-app-icons-without-jailbreaki ng
It's nice, because there's a lot of apps that I have, that I think devs have abandoned, so I don't have to worry about updates being pushed through, and even if they are, I am saving the icons, so that I may push them through if they ever get updated without a new icon.
This not only lets me update it to a retina display icon (114 x 114), but I can also change the icon, if I so desire!

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