Noob question: Is there a way to make phones send probe requests more often

[lookoutnoob]

Hello everyone,

I just bought the pineapple Nano and connected it to my PC.
Now I got my own android here and I only see it sending probe request only once every 2 minutes.

Is there a way/setting in the pineapple to let my phone send more probe requests?

Thanks in advance!

[computa]

Your phone is searching for wifi.networks to which it connected once. This intervall can't be influenced from the outside.

[lookoutnoob]

Just now, computa said:

Your phone is searching for wifi.networks to which it connected once. This intervall can't be influenced from the outside.

So if im correct its only possible to see a phone with the pineapple everytime the phone sends a probe request?

[barry99705]

Correct.

[Sebkinne]

7 hours ago, lookoutnoob said:

So if im correct its only possible to see a phone with the pineapple everytime the phone sends a probe request?

Incorrect, depending on what you mean with seeing. The WiFi Pineapple will detect a client device if it sends any other type of frame to an AP (such as data, etc). It doesn't need to be probing to be visible. 

[computa]

3 hours ago, Sebkinne said:

Incorrect, depending on what you mean with seeing. The WiFi Pineapple will detect a client device if it sends any other type of frame to an AP (such as data, etc). It doesn't need to be probing to be visible. 

So what kind of packets beeing send that a client gets listed as 'unassociated' ? 

[Sebkinne]

11 hours ago, computa said:

So what kind of packets beeing send that a client gets listed as 'unassociated' ? 

Probes mainly, but anything that is sent to broadcast and not to an AP (by a client device) will be listed there.

[barry99705]

12 hours ago, Sebkinne said:

Probes mainly, but anything that is sent to broadcast and not to an AP (by a client device) will be listed there.

Which 99.9999% of the time will be probe requests.

[Sebkinne]

19 minutes ago, barry99705 said:

Which 99.9999% of the time will be probe requests.

Right, when talking about unassociated clients, yeah :)