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In respond to my above comment, I've done additional testing. With the battery in my pocket but the Nano in the tactical bag, the management AP disconnected. I then simply laid the Nano out on a table hooked to the battery, and the management AP disconnected in about 5 minutes. The change from my previous tests was that this was done in a busy area and I was logging probes with PineAP. At this point, I believe the issue is coming from either logging large numbers of probes, or heat. Its now been 2 months and I have not been able to get the Pineapple to log probes in a busy area.

I've conducted a good deal of testing since the last post. I went and replaced the U connector with a cable and took the unit for a walk around the mall. The management AP crashed twice in 1 hour. So at this point, given the testing I've done, I suspect the cause is one of two things: 1. Movement- the unit had failed when I've been walking around but has worked when sitting on a table. 2. Heat- the unit gets very hot. It has failed while in the tactical bag, but not while sitting out on a table. My next test will be to run the unit with the nano in my belt in the tactical bag and the battery in my pocket.

So I powered the Nano last night connected to my tablet via USB and accessed the Nano from an iPhone over the Management AP. The Nano ran for 2 hours without a hitch. For the heck of it, I then ran the Nano from battery via the supplied U-shaped USB connector. Once again, the Nano ran for 2 hours just fine. Which I found odd since I had tried running it 4 times the previous day and had the Management AP crash on me all 4 times. The only difference I can think of was that I had the Nano and battery clipped to my bag while I was moving around, as opposed to my tests last night where my Nano was static on my desk. My suspicion at the moment is that the supplied U-shaped connector doesn't have a good contact with the Nano, and the movement is jarring it during use, which is crashing the system due to power fluctuations. I'm going to purchase a low-profile male-to-female USB cable at some point this week and try that instead of the connector.

Even with the management AP disabled, it still only lets me connect for client mode over WLAN1, which disables the PineAP. I can only replicate the issue when PineAP is active. I'll go ahead and power the nano from tablet tonight and see if the issue occurs still.

I haven't used the Management AP with the Nano connected to a PC via USB, mainly because if I'm connecting via the USB, I'm just going to use the local connection instead of wireless. I also haven't use a straight USB power connector, since one is not provided and it defeats the use-case I have for the Nano. My reasoning for getting the Nano Tactical was the mobile ability of the device, where I could clip it to my bag and access via a tablet or phone. Otherwise I would have just stuck with my older Mark Vs.

So I just picked up a Pineapple Tactical Nano from Defcon, and I'm having an odd issue with the management IP. While using the pineapple with the battery, I will randomly loose my connection to the management network. When I try to reconnect, it tells me the pass phrase is incorrect, or just gives me a connection error (depending on the device I use to connect). When I unplug the nano from the battery and plug it back in, I can reconnect to the device. But of course, this resents PineAP and blows away the logs I've been collecting. Anyone else having this issue? There appears to have been an open ticket with a few people reporting the issue on the support site, but it hasn't been accepted or addressed.