Actually fix the flaky android and msvc builds
Continuation from !1595 (merged). That MR didn't fix the spurious errors because the run_retry script was only used by the examples.
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Continuation from !1595 (merged). That MR didn't fix the spurious errors because the run_retry script was only used by the examples.