diff --git a/src/tools/androidtestrunner/main.cpp b/src/tools/androidtestrunner/main.cpp
index 45b1b6202e..e0a69bb9cb 100644
--- a/src/tools/androidtestrunner/main.cpp
+++ b/src/tools/androidtestrunner/main.cpp
@@ -415,21 +415,10 @@ static bool pullFiles()
     bool ret = true;
     for (auto it = g_options.outFiles.constBegin(); it != g_options.outFiles.end(); ++it) {
         QByteArray output;
-
-        // If the output file doesn't exist, adb still returns 0 exit code.
-        // Thus we need to explicitly check "echo $?".
-        if (!execCommand(QStringLiteral("%1 shell \'run-as %2 cat files/output.%3; echo $?\'")
+        if (!execCommand(QStringLiteral("%1 shell run-as %2 cat files/output.%3")
                          .arg(g_options.adbCommand, g_options.package, it.key()), &output)) {
             return false;
         }
-
-        // Handle the exit code then remove it from the output.
-        bool ok;
-        int ret = output.right(3).toInt(&ok);
-        if (ret || !ok)
-            return false;
-
-        output.chop(3);
         auto checkerIt = g_options.checkFiles.find(it.key());
         ret = ret && checkerIt != g_options.checkFiles.end() && checkerIt.value()(output);
         if (it.value() == QStringLiteral("-")){