diff --git a/mobile/android/base/fxa/sync/FxAccountSyncAdapter.java b/mobile/android/base/fxa/sync/FxAccountSyncAdapter.java
index 01a5be4b5106..bbf85f14409c 100644
--- a/mobile/android/base/fxa/sync/FxAccountSyncAdapter.java
+++ b/mobile/android/base/fxa/sync/FxAccountSyncAdapter.java
@@ -265,6 +265,10 @@ public class FxAccountSyncAdapter extends AbstractThreadedSyncAdapter {
         Logger.error(LOG_TAG, "Failed to get token.", e);
         callback.handleError(null, e);
       }
+
+      @Override
+      public void handleBackoff(int backoffSeconds) {
+      }
     });
   }
 
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_checkbox.png b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_checkbox.png
index 11e89d34aba2..f6ef37ba9405 100755
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diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_active.png b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_active.png
index 4abb71ee3cdb..a8782e2d6656 100644
Binary files a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_active.png and b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_active.png differ
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_inactive.png b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_inactive.png
index 204562d39f09..8314fc45b04f 100644
Binary files a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_inactive.png and b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_inactive.png differ
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_icon.png b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_icon.png
index 131f05dd288a..03a16d427eae 100755
Binary files a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_icon.png and b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_icon.png differ
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_mail.png b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_mail.png
index 3a2e33adfcc3..23ebe23741ed 100755
Binary files a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_mail.png and b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_mail.png differ
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_sync_icon.png b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_sync_icon.png
index 1b6e67572fb2..fe2e174886c9 100644
Binary files a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_sync_icon.png and b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-hdpi/fxaccount_sync_icon.png differ
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_checkbox.png b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_checkbox.png
index 1a50daf6de8d..1c1d14c0c9fe 100644
Binary files a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_checkbox.png and b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_checkbox.png differ
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_active.png b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_active.png
index bb978372f0ea..d1fd254cd5f2 100644
Binary files a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_active.png and b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_active.png differ
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_inactive.png b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_inactive.png
index 7d82a89cb183..82304783977b 100644
Binary files a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_inactive.png and b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_ddarrow_inactive.png differ
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_icon.png b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_icon.png
index b6e7595e0bf7..b328c7b44144 100644
Binary files a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_icon.png and b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_icon.png differ
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_mail.png b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_mail.png
index bcb5f1596358..2f7d92b706c5 100644
Binary files a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_mail.png and b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_mail.png differ
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_sync_error.png b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_sync_error.png
index 71f60fb224ee..5b084016df13 100644
Binary files a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_sync_error.png and b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/fxaccount_sync_error.png differ
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/sync_desktop.png b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/sync_desktop.png
index 83f98d3c0b11..e470ebc6d671 100644
Binary files a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/sync_desktop.png and b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/sync_desktop.png differ
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/sync_mobile.png b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/sync_mobile.png
index c237c29559c2..51efb99a2175 100644
Binary files a/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/sync_mobile.png and b/mobile/android/base/resources/drawable-mdpi/sync_mobile.png differ
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/sync/net/SyncResponse.java b/mobile/android/base/sync/net/SyncResponse.java
index 2409f7c72585..b0e676a7e8fe 100644
--- a/mobile/android/base/sync/net/SyncResponse.java
+++ b/mobile/android/base/sync/net/SyncResponse.java
@@ -49,6 +49,20 @@ public class SyncResponse {
     return this.getStatusCode() == 200;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Fetch the content type of the HTTP response body.
+   *
+   * @return a <code>Header</code> instance, or <code>null</code> if there was
+   *         no body or no valid Content-Type.
+   */
+  public Header getContentType() {
+    HttpEntity entity = this.response.getEntity();
+    if (entity == null) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    return entity.getContentType();
+  }
+
   private String body = null;
   public String body() throws IllegalStateException, IOException {
     if (body != null) {
@@ -145,6 +159,14 @@ public class SyncResponse {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * @return A number of seconds, or -1 if the 'X-Backoff' header was not
+   *         present.
+   */
+  public int backoffInSeconds() throws NumberFormatException {
+    return this.getIntegerHeader("x-backoff");
+  }
+
   /**
    * @return A number of seconds, or -1 if the 'X-Weave-Backoff' header was not
    *         present.
@@ -154,14 +176,21 @@ public class SyncResponse {
   }
 
   /**
-   * @return A number of milliseconds, or -1 if neither the 'Retry-After' or
-   *         'X-Weave-Backoff' header was present.
+   * Extract a number of seconds, or -1 if none of the specified headers were present.
+   *
+   * @param includeRetryAfter
+   *          if <code>true</code>, the Retry-After header is excluded. This is
+   *          useful for processing non-error responses where a Retry-After
+   *          header would be unexpected.
+   * @return the maximum of the three possible backoff headers, in seconds.
    */
-  public long totalBackoffInMilliseconds() {
+  public int totalBackoffInSeconds(boolean includeRetryAfter) {
     int retryAfterInSeconds = -1;
-    try {
-      retryAfterInSeconds = retryAfterInSeconds();
-    } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+    if (includeRetryAfter) {
+      try {
+        retryAfterInSeconds = retryAfterInSeconds();
+      } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+      }
     }
 
     int weaveBackoffInSeconds = -1;
@@ -170,7 +199,26 @@ public class SyncResponse {
     } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
     }
 
-    long totalBackoff = (long) Math.max(retryAfterInSeconds, weaveBackoffInSeconds);
+    int backoffInSeconds = -1;
+    try {
+      backoffInSeconds = backoffInSeconds();
+    } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+    }
+
+    int totalBackoff = Math.max(retryAfterInSeconds, Math.max(backoffInSeconds, weaveBackoffInSeconds));
+    if (totalBackoff < 0) {
+      return -1;
+    } else {
+      return totalBackoff;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @return A number of milliseconds, or -1 if neither the 'Retry-After',
+   *         'X-Backoff', or 'X-Weave-Backoff' header were present.
+   */
+  public long totalBackoffInMilliseconds() {
+    long totalBackoff = totalBackoffInSeconds(true);
     if (totalBackoff < 0) {
       return -1;
     } else {
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/sync/net/SyncStorageRecordRequest.java b/mobile/android/base/sync/net/SyncStorageRecordRequest.java
index 88bf81ab73ab..5e87ce8c8ef9 100644
--- a/mobile/android/base/sync/net/SyncStorageRecordRequest.java
+++ b/mobile/android/base/sync/net/SyncStorageRecordRequest.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import org.mozilla.gecko.sync.ThreadPool;
  * * Headers:
  *   * Retry-After
  *   * X-Weave-Backoff
+ *   * X-Backoff
  *   * X-Weave-Records?
  *   * ...
  * * Timeouts
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/tokenserver/TokenServerClient.java b/mobile/android/base/tokenserver/TokenServerClient.java
index e13d0fe3c31d..dd8229fa1d79 100644
--- a/mobile/android/base/tokenserver/TokenServerClient.java
+++ b/mobile/android/base/tokenserver/TokenServerClient.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import org.mozilla.gecko.tokenserver.TokenServerException.TokenServerMalformedRe
 import org.mozilla.gecko.tokenserver.TokenServerException.TokenServerMalformedResponseException;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.tokenserver.TokenServerException.TokenServerUnknownServiceException;
 
+import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.Header;
 import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.HttpHeaders;
 import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.HttpResponse;
 import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.client.ClientProtocolException;
@@ -93,6 +94,28 @@ public class TokenServerClient {
     });
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Notify the delegate that some kind of backoff header (X-Backoff,
+   * X-Weave-Backoff, Retry-After) was received and should be acted upon.
+   *
+   * This method is non-terminal, and will be followed by a separate
+   * <code>invoke*</code> call.
+   *
+   * @param delegate
+   *          the delegate to inform.
+   * @param backoffSeconds
+   *          the number of seconds for which the system should wait before
+   *          making another token server request to this server.
+   */
+  protected void notifyBackoff(final TokenServerClientDelegate delegate, final int backoffSeconds) {
+    executor.execute(new Runnable() {
+      @Override
+      public void run() {
+        delegate.handleBackoff(backoffSeconds);
+      }
+    });
+  }
+
   protected void invokeHandleError(final TokenServerClientDelegate delegate, final Exception e) {
     executor.execute(new Runnable() {
       @Override
@@ -102,17 +125,21 @@ public class TokenServerClient {
     });
   }
 
-  public TokenServerToken processResponse(HttpResponse response)
-      throws TokenServerException {
-    SyncResponse res = new SyncResponse(response);
+  public TokenServerToken processResponse(SyncResponse res) throws TokenServerException {
     int statusCode = res.getStatusCode();
 
     Logger.debug(LOG_TAG, "Got token response with status code " + statusCode + ".");
 
     // Responses should *always* be JSON, even in the case of 4xx and 5xx
     // errors. If we don't see JSON, the server is likely very unhappy.
-    String contentType = response.getEntity().getContentType().getValue();
-    if (!contentType.equals("application/json") && !contentType.startsWith("application/json;")) {
+    final Header contentType = res.getContentType();
+    if (contentType == null) {
+      throw new TokenServerMalformedResponseException(null, "Non-JSON response Content-Type.");
+    }
+
+    final String type = contentType.getValue();
+    if (!type.equals("application/json") &&
+        !type.startsWith("application/json;")) {
       Logger.warn(LOG_TAG, "Got non-JSON response with Content-Type " +
           contentType + ". Misconfigured server?");
       throw new TokenServerMalformedResponseException(null, "Non-JSON response Content-Type.");
@@ -230,10 +257,21 @@ public class TokenServerClient {
 
     @Override
     public void handleHttpResponse(HttpResponse response) {
+      // Skew.
       SkewHandler skewHandler = SkewHandler.getSkewHandlerForResource(resource);
       skewHandler.updateSkew(response, System.currentTimeMillis());
+
+      // Extract backoff regardless of whether this was an error response, and
+      // Retry-After for 503 responses. The error will be handled elsewhere.)
+      SyncResponse res = new SyncResponse(response);
+      final boolean includeRetryAfter = res.getStatusCode() == 503;
+      int backoffInSeconds = res.totalBackoffInSeconds(includeRetryAfter);
+      if (backoffInSeconds > -1) {
+        client.notifyBackoff(delegate, backoffInSeconds);
+      }
+
       try {
-        TokenServerToken token = client.processResponse(response);
+        TokenServerToken token = client.processResponse(res);
         client.invokeHandleSuccess(delegate, token);
       } catch (TokenServerException e) {
         client.invokeHandleFailure(delegate, e);
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/tokenserver/TokenServerClientDelegate.java b/mobile/android/base/tokenserver/TokenServerClientDelegate.java
index 2fc48b08ef99..d34d04c73ffa 100644
--- a/mobile/android/base/tokenserver/TokenServerClientDelegate.java
+++ b/mobile/android/base/tokenserver/TokenServerClientDelegate.java
@@ -4,9 +4,13 @@
 
 package org.mozilla.gecko.tokenserver;
 
-
 public interface TokenServerClientDelegate {
   void handleSuccess(TokenServerToken token);
   void handleFailure(TokenServerException e);
   void handleError(Exception e);
+
+  /**
+   * Might be called multiple times, in addition to the other terminating handler methods.
+   */
+  void handleBackoff(int backoffSeconds);
 }
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