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I'm trying to capture/monitor packets coming out/going in from my android phone. To accomplish this, I'm using a trial of connectify. Basically, it makes my laptop a wifi hotspot while also connected to a wifi network. I then connect my phone to my laptop wifi hotspot and run wireshark on the laptop.

At this point, I use an app to ping a remote server (this works). What's weird is that I can only see the reply from the server and not the request coming from my phone in Wireshark. What I want to capture is the packet message coming from my phone. How can I do this?

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are you sure the phone is using wifi? maybe it's using cellular data to make the requests even though wifi is connected. Try turning cellular data off and leaving on wifi connected. – Ken Jan 30 at 8:43

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Are you capturing on a Windows device? Many wireless drivers on Windows won't work in promiscuous mode, which might explain why you aren't seeing traffic. There are a few things you could try, like booting to Linux, or you could try capturing packets on your Android device itself. I heard good things about tPacketCatpture, altough haven't tried it myself.

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