Revert "Remove direct echo db access from mobilefrontend"

Revert this for now due to Echo not being stable, I don't want to break
MobileFrontend, :), Re-apply this code back when the new Echo code is in
both deployment branches


This reverts commit 71cd7eddc735f4a7fbe0a58e11577f2302a3e22a.

Change-Id: I5004d3a56cb08d561bab0c9a3e538e18596818e8
Merge "Revert "Remove direct echo db access from mobilefrontend""