atcsklang
I just applied another way to load the favicon from template folder, here is the tweak:
1: Copy the “head.php” file from “/plugins/system/jat3/jat3/base-themes/default/blocks” to “templates/ja_portfolio/blocks”
2: open it up and look for the following line:
<link href=”<?php echo T3Path::getUrl(‘images/favicon.ico’) ?>” rel=”shortcut icon” type=”image/x-icon” />
3: Replace it with this line:
<link href=”<?php echo JURI::base(true).”/templates/ja_portfolio/favicon.ico”; ?>” rel=”shortcut icon” type=”image/x-icon” />
It's working now.