The following list is a revised list of my preferred applications for Android, it’s a modification from my original post for 2011.

For the Rooted crowd:

• Titanium Backup: I rely on this application for backups and restores, the features to sync over dropbox and box are excellent. Of course I own the “Pro Key”, well worth the money.
• aLogCat: should you need to look at the internal Android logs, very customisable.
• MyBackupRoot: In the same category as Titanium Backup, but with the additional settings to backup things like: MMS,
• SMS, Call log, Playlists, Settings, Android Home, and etc. I use this application is conjunction with Titanium Backup

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Sometimes you may find that the accounts setup in MotoBlur are giving you problems, or gets out of sync with the Morotola servers, and you would like to reset it. The following process will walk you through resetting the Motorola MotoBlur account, for reset I mean, re-syncing the account with Motorola.

First of all, I recommend doing this in a shell environment, but you can always use the built-in file manager of your choice, if you don’t know which file manager to choose, refer to my Best Android Applications post.

Secondly, a basic understanding of what a directory and a file are. If you don’t understand these basic concepts, then I recommend performing a full data reset/wipe.

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