In one of my research projects, I used Android PCAP Capture with ALFA RTL8187L dongles to capture Wi-Fi packets on Android phones. One problem I encountered was that per packet RSSI is missing. After poking around the source code for couple of days, I finally figured out how to get this information. In short, the per packet RSSI information IS indeed reported by the hardware, yet the current Android PCAP app doesn't collect it.

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