diff --git a/mobile/android/services/src/main/java/org/mozilla/gecko/sync/Utils.java b/mobile/android/services/src/main/java/org/mozilla/gecko/sync/Utils.java
index 0cec6f5138c9..5047a528d234 100644
--- a/mobile/android/services/src/main/java/org/mozilla/gecko/sync/Utils.java
+++ b/mobile/android/services/src/main/java/org/mozilla/gecko/sync/Utils.java
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ import org.mozilla.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.background.common.log.Logger;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.background.nativecode.NativeCrypto;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.sync.setup.Constants;
-import org.mozilla.gecko.util.IOUtils;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.util.StringUtils;
 
 import android.content.Context;
@@ -489,10 +488,14 @@ public class Utils {
       throw new IllegalArgumentException("Passed null filename in readFile.");
     }
 
+    FileInputStream fis = null;
+    InputStreamReader isr = null;
     BufferedReader br = null;
 
     try {
-      br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(context.openFileInput(filename), StringUtils.UTF_8));
+      fis = context.openFileInput(filename);
+      isr = new InputStreamReader(fis, StringUtils.UTF_8);
+      br = new BufferedReader(isr);
       StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
       String line;
       while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
@@ -502,7 +505,20 @@ public class Utils {
     } catch (Exception e) {
       return null;
     } finally {
-      IOUtils.safeStreamClose(br);
+      if (isr != null) {
+        try {
+          isr.close();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+          // Ignore.
+        }
+      }
+      if (fis != null) {
+        try {
+          fis.close();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+          // Ignore.
+        }
+      }
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/mobile/android/services/src/main/java/org/mozilla/gecko/sync/net/MozResponse.java b/mobile/android/services/src/main/java/org/mozilla/gecko/sync/net/MozResponse.java
index da389fe539ab..3792abbeda8c 100644
--- a/mobile/android/services/src/main/java/org/mozilla/gecko/sync/net/MozResponse.java
+++ b/mobile/android/services/src/main/java/org/mozilla/gecko/sync/net/MozResponse.java
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ import org.mozilla.gecko.background.common.log.Logger;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.sync.ExtendedJSONObject;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.sync.NonArrayJSONException;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.sync.NonObjectJSONException;
-import org.mozilla.gecko.util.IOUtils;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.util.StringUtils;
 
 import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.Header;
@@ -107,12 +106,12 @@ public class MozResponse {
       throw new IOException("no entity");
     }
 
-    Reader in = null;
+    InputStream content = entity.getContent();
     try {
-      in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(entity.getContent(), StringUtils.UTF_8));
+      Reader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(content, "UTF-8"));
       return new ExtendedJSONObject(in);
     } finally {
-      IOUtils.safeStreamClose(in);
+      content.close();
     }
   }