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WLAN Surveying/Client testing with Android after Pie broke everything!

I found a nice tidbit today within dialer codes of Android phones.

This will help provide the BSSID, RSSI, TX and RX Rates and other helpful information when doing client testing.

So we all know that client testing on Android has been broken since Android Pie (https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/79906367#comment15) and Google says they are not looking to fix it as it's a feature for battery savings.  What does that mean?  All your favorite wifi scanning apps are essentially broken or just too slow to really get any usable data.  Aside from some PING applications - what else can you do?

Well, I found it and here it is:

Go to your dialer app and type in *#*#4636#*#*

You'll first see





Go to Wi-Fi Information






And then go to Wi-Fi status





I have found that the refresh rate for the RSSI is much faster than any of the programs like Analyzer can provide as well as the TX and RX rates and you can even see the BSSID.

Hope this helps!





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