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nRFSniffer shows only Advertisement Indicators

I'm trying to listen to a bluetooth low energy connection between a smart bracelet and my smartphone. In Wireshark 1.10.1 I only can see the Advertising Indicators. As soon as the bracelet is paired with the smartphone application, I can't see any further log entries in wireshark (but I know that there IS data exchange between bracelet and smartphone).

Now I found some older threads in the dev zone (like devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../), where a dev says it's a known bug. Is there any information if and when this bug will be fixed? Or did I bought the sniffer hardware for nothing? I'm really disappointed and frustrated. If this bug won't be fixed, could you recommend a software which is compatible with the hardware?

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  • I have a smart bracelet (Juboury Fitness Tracker) which needs an app (Zeroner) to establish a bluetooth connection. The plain android bluetooth manager can't handle out a connection. Because the app isn't opensource, I can't say exactly what it does to setup a connection. If I start the sniffer application and press the sync button on the bracelet, it immediately shows up in the device list. Then, I select this device (typing in the device index) and start wireshark by pressing "w". In Wireshark, I can see a lot of packets coming in, they're all of the type "ADV_IND". Then I start the app "Zeroner" on my smartphone and do a device scan. In Wireshark, the ADV_IND packets are now coming even more frequently than before. When the bracelet was found, I click on it to build a connection. As soon as the connection between the app and bracelet is established, I don't receive any further packet.

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  • I have a smart bracelet (Juboury Fitness Tracker) which needs an app (Zeroner) to establish a bluetooth connection. The plain android bluetooth manager can't handle out a connection. Because the app isn't opensource, I can't say exactly what it does to setup a connection. If I start the sniffer application and press the sync button on the bracelet, it immediately shows up in the device list. Then, I select this device (typing in the device index) and start wireshark by pressing "w". In Wireshark, I can see a lot of packets coming in, they're all of the type "ADV_IND". Then I start the app "Zeroner" on my smartphone and do a device scan. In Wireshark, the ADV_IND packets are now coming even more frequently than before. When the bracelet was found, I click on it to build a connection. As soon as the connection between the app and bracelet is established, I don't receive any further packet.

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