diff --git a/engine/src/android/com/jme3/app/AndroidHarness.java b/engine/src/android/com/jme3/app/AndroidHarness.java
index 49c1a38f0..702c3a25d 100644
--- a/engine/src/android/com/jme3/app/AndroidHarness.java
+++ b/engine/src/android/com/jme3/app/AndroidHarness.java
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import com.jme3.system.android.OGLESContext;
 import com.jme3.util.AndroidLogHandler;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.util.logging.Handler;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.LogManager;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ public class AndroidHarness extends Activity implements TouchListener, DialogInt
      */
     @Deprecated
     protected boolean eglConfigVerboseLogging = false;
-    
+
     /**
      * set to 2, 4 to enable multisampling.
      */
@@ -160,7 +161,8 @@ public class AndroidHarness extends Activity implements TouchListener, DialogInt
 
     @Override
     public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
-        LogManager.getLogManager().getLogger("").addHandler(new AndroidLogHandler());
+        initializeLogHandler();
+
         logger.fine("onCreate");
         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
 
@@ -198,7 +200,7 @@ public class AndroidHarness extends Activity implements TouchListener, DialogInt
             settings.setSamples(antiAliasingSamples);
             settings.setResolution(disp.getWidth(), disp.getHeight());
             settings.put(AndroidConfigChooser.SETTINGS_CONFIG_TYPE, eglConfigType);
-            
+
 
             // Create application instance
             try {
@@ -473,6 +475,24 @@ public class AndroidHarness extends Activity implements TouchListener, DialogInt
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Removes the standard Android log handler due to an issue with not logging
+     * entries lower than INFO level and adds a handler that produces
+     * JME formatted log messages.
+     */
+    protected void initializeLogHandler() {
+        Logger log = LogManager.getLogManager().getLogger("");
+        for (Handler handler : log.getHandlers()) {
+            if (log.getLevel() != null && log.getLevel().intValue() <= Level.FINE.intValue()) {
+                Log.v("AndroidHarness", "Removing Handler class: " + handler.getClass().getName());
+            }
+            log.removeHandler(handler);
+        }
+        Handler handler = new AndroidLogHandler();
+        log.addHandler(handler);
+        handler.setLevel(Level.ALL);
+    }
+
     public void initialize() {
         app.initialize();
         if (handleExitHook) {
diff --git a/engine/src/android/com/jme3/system/android/JmeAndroidSystem.java b/engine/src/android/com/jme3/system/android/JmeAndroidSystem.java
index aab6a2b7c..40318040b 100644
--- a/engine/src/android/com/jme3/system/android/JmeAndroidSystem.java
+++ b/engine/src/android/com/jme3/system/android/JmeAndroidSystem.java
@@ -115,34 +115,7 @@ public class JmeAndroidSystem extends JmeSystemDelegate {
         }
 
         initialized = true;
-        try {
-//            JmeFormatter formatter = new JmeFormatter();
-//            Handler consoleHandler = new AndroidLogHandler();
-//            consoleHandler.setFormatter(formatter);
-//
-//            Logger log = Logger.getLogger("");
-//            for (Handler h : log.getHandlers()) {
-//                log.removeHandler(h);
-//            }
-//            log.addHandler(consoleHandler);
-            Logger log = Logger.getLogger(JmeAndroidSystem.class.getName());
-            boolean bIsLogFormatSet = false;
-            do {
-                log.setLevel(Level.ALL);
-                if (log.getHandlers().length == 0) {
-                    log = log.getParent();
-                    if (log != null) {
-                        for (Handler h : log.getHandlers()) {
-                            h.setFormatter(new JmeFormatter());
-                            h.setLevel(Level.ALL);
-                            bIsLogFormatSet = true;
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-            } while (log != null && !bIsLogFormatSet);
-        } catch (SecurityException ex) {
-            logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Security error in creating log file", ex);
-        }
+
         logger.log(Level.INFO, "Running on {0}", getFullName());
     }
 
diff --git a/engine/src/android/com/jme3/util/AndroidLogHandler.java b/engine/src/android/com/jme3/util/AndroidLogHandler.java
index 805c5d9bf..9966be955 100644
--- a/engine/src/android/com/jme3/util/AndroidLogHandler.java
+++ b/engine/src/android/com/jme3/util/AndroidLogHandler.java
@@ -15,22 +15,31 @@ import java.util.logging.Logger;
  */
 public class AndroidLogHandler extends Handler {
 
-    private static final Formatter THE_FORMATTER = new Formatter() {
+    private static final Formatter JME_FORMATTER = new JmeFormatter() {
+
+        String lineSeperator = System.getProperty("line.separator");
+
         @Override
-        public String format(LogRecord r) {
-            Throwable thrown = r.getThrown();
-            if (thrown != null) {
-                StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
-                PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw);
-                sw.write(r.getMessage());
-                sw.write("\n");
-                thrown.printStackTrace(pw);
-                pw.flush();
-                return sw.toString();
-            } else {
-                return r.getMessage();
+        public String format(LogRecord record) {
+            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+
+            sb.append(record.getLevel().getLocalizedName()).append(" ");
+            sb.append(formatMessage(record)).append(lineSeperator);
+
+            if (record.getThrown() != null) {
+                try {
+                    StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
+                    PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw);
+                    record.getThrown().printStackTrace(pw);
+                    pw.close();
+                    sb.append(sw.toString());
+                } catch (Exception ex) {
+                }
             }
+
+            return sb.toString();
         }
+
     };
 
     @Override
@@ -44,14 +53,13 @@ public class AndroidLogHandler extends Handler {
     @Override
     public void publish(LogRecord record) {
 
-        try {
-            Level level = record.getLevel();
-            String tag = record.getLoggerName();
-            String msg = THE_FORMATTER.format(record);
-            int lv = getAndroidLevel(level);
-
-            Log.println(lv, tag, msg);
+        int level = getAndroidLevel(record.getLevel());
+//        String tag = loggerNameToTag(record.getLoggerName());
+        String tag = record.getLoggerName();
 
+        try {
+            String message = JME_FORMATTER.format(record);
+            Log.println(level, tag, message);
         } catch (RuntimeException e) {
             Log.e("AndroidHandler", "Error logging message.", e);
         }
@@ -77,4 +85,26 @@ public class AndroidLogHandler extends Handler {
             return Log.DEBUG;
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the short logger tag for the given logger name.
+     * Traditionally loggers are named by fully-qualified Java classes; this
+     * method attempts to return a concise identifying part of such names.
+     */
+    public static String loggerNameToTag(String loggerName) {
+        // Anonymous logger.
+        if (loggerName == null) {
+            return "null";
+        }
+
+        int length = loggerName.length();
+        int lastPeriod = loggerName.lastIndexOf(".");
+
+        if (lastPeriod == -1) {
+            return loggerName;
+        }
+
+        return loggerName.substring(lastPeriod + 1);
+    }
+
 }