--- a/testing/mozbase/mozdevice/adb_tests/test_devicemanagerADB.py
+++ b/testing/mozbase/mozdevice/adb_tests/test_devicemanagerADB.py
@@ -169,19 +169,17 @@ class TestFileOperations(DeviceManagerAD
 class TestOther(DeviceManagerADBTestCase):
     def test_get_list_of_processes(self):
         self.assertEquals(type(self.dm.getProcessList()), list)
 
     def test_get_current_time(self):
         self.assertEquals(type(self.dm.getCurrentTime()), int)
 
     def test_get_info(self):
-        self.assertEquals(self.dm.getInfo(), {})
-        # Commented since it is too nosiy
-        #self.assertEquals(self.dm.getInfo("all"), dict)
+        self.assertEquals(type(self.dm.getInfo()), dict)
 
     def test_list_devices(self):
         self.assertEquals(len(list(self.dm.devices())), 1)
 
     def test_shell(self):
         out = StringIO()
         self.dm.shell(["echo", "$COMPANY", ";", "pwd"], out,
                 env={"COMPANY":"Mozilla"}, cwd="/", timeout=4, root=True)

--- a/testing/mozbase/mozdevice/mozdevice/devicemanagerADB.py
+++ b/testing/mozbase/mozdevice/mozdevice/devicemanagerADB.py
@@ -492,36 +492,33 @@ class DeviceManagerADB(DeviceManager):
 
     def getCurrentTime(self):
         timestr = str(self._runCmd(["shell", "date", "+%s"]).output[0])
         if (not timestr or not timestr.isdigit()):
             raise DMError("Unable to get current time using date (got: '%s')" % timestr)
         return int(timestr)*1000
 
     def getInfo(self, directive=None):
+        directive = directive or "all"
         ret = {}
-        if (directive == "id" or directive == "all"):
+        if directive == "id" or directive == "all":
             ret["id"] = self._runCmd(["get-serialno"]).output[0]
-        if (directive == "os" or directive == "all"):
-            ret["os"] = self._runCmd(["shell", "getprop", "ro.build.display.id"]).output[0]
-        if (directive == "uptime" or directive == "all"):
-            utime = self._runCmd(["shell", "uptime"]).output[0]
+        if directive == "os" or directive == "all":
+            ret["os"] = self.shellCheckOutput(["getprop", "ro.build.display.id"])
+        if directive == "uptime" or directive == "all":
+            utime = self.shellCheckOutput(["uptime"])
             if (not utime):
                 raise DMError("error getting uptime")
-            utime = utime[9:]
-            hours = utime[0:utime.find(":")]
-            utime = utime[utime[1:].find(":") + 2:]
-            minutes = utime[0:utime.find(":")]
-            utime = utime[utime[1:].find(":") +  2:]
-            seconds = utime[0:utime.find(",")]
-            ret["uptime"] = ["0 days " + hours + " hours " + minutes + " minutes " + seconds + " seconds"]
-        if (directive == "process" or directive == "all"):
-            ret["process"] = self._runCmd(["shell", "ps"]).output
-        if (directive == "systime" or directive == "all"):
-            ret["systime"] = self._runCmd(["shell", "date"]).output[0]
+            m = re.match("up time: ((\d+) days, )*(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})", utime)
+            ret["uptime"] = "%d days %d hours %d minutes %d seconds" % tuple(
+                [int(g or 0) for g in m.groups()[1:]])
+        if directive == "process" or directive == "all":
+            ret["process"] = self.shellCheckOutput(["ps"])
+        if directive == "systime" or directive == "all":
+            ret["systime"] = self.shellCheckOutput(["date"])
         self._logger.info(ret)
         return ret
 
     def uninstallApp(self, appName, installPath=None):
         status = self._runCmd(["uninstall", appName]).output[0].strip()
         if status != 'Success':
             raise DMError("uninstall failed for %s. Got: %s" % (appName, status))
 

--- a/testing/mozbase/mozdevice/mozdevice/dmcli.py
+++ b/testing/mozbase/mozdevice/mozdevice/dmcli.py
@@ -277,24 +277,21 @@ class DMCli(object):
         buf = StringIO.StringIO()
         self.dm.shell(args.command, buf, root=args.root)
         print str(buf.getvalue()[0:-1]).rstrip()
 
     def getinfo(self, args):
         info = self.dm.getInfo(directive=args.directive)
         for (infokey, infoitem) in sorted(info.iteritems()):
             if infokey == "process":
-                pass # skip process list: get that through ps
-            elif not args.directive and not infoitem:
-                print "%s:" % infokey.upper()
-            elif not args.directive:
-                for line in infoitem:
-                    print "%s: %s" % (infokey.upper(), line)
+                pass  # skip process list: get that through ps
+            elif args.directive is None:
+                print "%s: %s" % (infokey.upper(), infoitem)
             else:
-                print "%s" % "\n".join(infoitem)
+                print infoitem
 
     def logcat(self, args):
         print ''.join(self.dm.getLogcat())
 
     def clearlogcat(self, args):
         self.dm.recordLogcat()
 
     def reboot(self, args):