I don't know why you're getting Strings that represent the Unicode byte
representations of your strings. My guess is that whatever is populating the database
is pumping the data in incorrectly.
Meanwhile, here's a workaround.
String s = "0x736D616C6C6170754069782E6E6574636F6D2E636F6D";
//account for all pairs except "0x" header s
byte[] b = new byte[Math.max(0, s.length()/2 - 1)];
//translate bytes from character pairs, starting after header "0x"
for (int i=2, j=0; i < s.length(); i+=2, j++) {
b[j] = Byte.parseByte( s.substring(i,i+2), 16 );
}
String translated = new String(b);
System.out.println(translated);
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