diff --git a/README.Android b/README.Android
index be1d765d734a..633ec52f2f35 100644
--- a/README.Android
+++ b/README.Android
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ and AVD that doesn't work. Instead start it from the console:
 	emulator-arm -avd <Name> -partition-size 500
 
 	Where <Name> is the literal name of the AVD that you entered.
-Then it is necessary to get stdout/err to go to somewhere we can find it:
-
-	adb shell stop; adb shell setprop log.redirect-stdio true; adb shell start
 
 	Then:
 
@@ -20,12 +17,15 @@ Then it is necessary to get stdout/err to go to somewhere we can find it:
 	make clean all install
 	make run ; adb shell logcat
 
-	And if all goes well - you should have some nice unit
-test output to enjoy. After a while of this loop you'll probably
-find that android has lost a lot of space on your device at
-this point:
+	And if all goes well - you should have some nice unit test output to
+enjoy. After a while of this loop you might find that you have lost a lot of
+space on your emulator's or device's /data volume. If using the emulator, you
+can do:
 
-	adb shell stop; adb shell setprop log.redirect-stdio true; adb shell start
+	adb shell stop; adb shell start
+
+but on a (non-rooted) device you probably just need to reboot it. On the other
+hand, this phenomenon might not happen on actual devices.
 
 	and continue onwards & upwards.
 
diff --git a/README.cross b/README.cross
index 3567a69afe30..63dc9cf48067 100644
--- a/README.cross
+++ b/README.cross
@@ -395,14 +395,12 @@ mechanism.
 
 Then to run the unit test, do "make install" followed by "make
 run". You most likely want to have an "adb logcat" running in another
-window, and you probably also want to have set the stdout and stderr
-of app processes to be redirected to logcat ("adb shell stop; adb
-shell setprop log.redirect-stdio true; adb shell start").
+window.
 
-To debug, do manually what "make run" would do, adding args "-e
-lo-main-delay 20" to the command line, and when the app has started,
-run ndk-gdb. Unfortunately the gdb in NDK r7 is broken, use the one in
-the NDK build with newer versions of gcc and gdb from
+To debug, do manually what "make run" would do, adding args "-e lo-main-delay
+20" to the command line, and when the app has started, run
+ndk-gdb. Unfortunately the gdb in NDK r7 and r8 is a bit broken, you can use
+the one in a NDK build with newer versions of gcc and gdb from
 http://code.google.com/p/mingw-and-ndk/ instead.
 
 Running strace on the unit test in progress is often useful to find
diff --git a/android/qa/sc/Makefile b/android/qa/sc/Makefile
index 078c9e2cb5f2..660038197678 100644
--- a/android/qa/sc/Makefile
+++ b/android/qa/sc/Makefile
@@ -191,10 +191,6 @@ run: run_ucalc run_filters_test
 stop-start-cycle:
 	$(ANDROID_SDK_HOME)/platform-tools/adb shell stop && $(ANDROID_SDK_HOME)/platform-tools/adb shell start && sleep 10
 
-# Too hard to remember this stuff;)
-redirect-stdio:
-	$(ANDROID_SDK_HOME)/platform-tools/adb shell stop && $(ANDROID_SDK_HOME)/platform-tools/adb shell setprop log.redirect-stdio true && $(ANDROID_SDK_HOME)/platform-tools/adb shell start
-
 clean: properties
 	$(ANT) clean
 	rm -rf assets $(SODEST) $(OBJLOCAL)