diff --git a/core/java/android/app/ActivityThread.java b/core/java/android/app/ActivityThread.java
index 6b931b8fb26ee..5ab694faca64c 100644
--- a/core/java/android/app/ActivityThread.java
+++ b/core/java/android/app/ActivityThread.java
@@ -189,7 +189,6 @@ import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.net.InetAddress;
-import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.text.DateFormat;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
@@ -7293,24 +7292,6 @@ public final class ActivityThread extends ClientTransactionHandler {
                 super.remove(path);
             }
         }
-
-        @Override
-        public void rename(String oldPath, String newPath) throws ErrnoException {
-            try {
-                super.rename(oldPath, newPath);
-            } catch (ErrnoException e) {
-                if (e.errno == OsConstants.EXDEV) {
-                    Log.v(TAG, "Recovering failed rename " + oldPath + " to " + newPath);
-                    try {
-                        Files.move(new File(oldPath).toPath(), new File(newPath).toPath());
-                    } catch (IOException e2) {
-                        throw e;
-                    }
-                } else {
-                    throw e;
-                }
-            }
-        }
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args) {