diff --git a/circle.yml b/circle.yml
index 8979d3fb6..4aa1e4405 100644
--- a/circle.yml
+++ b/circle.yml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ test:
     - ./gradlew :ReactAndroid:assembleDebugAndroidTest
 
     # Android e2e test
-    - node ./scripts/run-ci-e2e-tests.js --android --js --retries 3
+    - node ./scripts/run-ci-e2e-tests.js --android --js --retries 5
 
     # testing docs generation is not broken
     - cd website && node ./server/generate.js
diff --git a/scripts/run-ci-android-instrumentation-tests.js b/scripts/run-ci-android-instrumentation-tests.js
index cc9b4a720..7bd04bb84 100644
--- a/scripts/run-ci-android-instrumentation-tests.js
+++ b/scripts/run-ci-android-instrumentation-tests.js
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ let exitCode = 0;
 testClasses.forEach((testClass) => {
   if (tryExecNTimes(
     () => {
-      exec('sleep 5s');
+      exec('sleep 10s');
       return exec(`./scripts/run-android-instrumentation-tests.sh ${argv.package} ${testClass}`).code;
     },
     numberOfRetries)) {