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Format

Bluetooth Snoop Packet Capture

Summary

Name
Bluetooth Snoop Packet Capture
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/904
Description
Android 4.4 introduced the ability to capture all Bluetooth HCI packets and save them to a file, typically called btsnoop_hci.log. The BtSnoop file format closely resembles the snoop format, https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/781
File extensions
log
Source
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Internal signatures

Bluetooth Snoop Packet Capture

Note
BOF: 'btsnoop' string, null terminated. The next 4 bytes represent version number

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
6274736E6F6F7000
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V85

    Release date
    29 June 2016

    Bluetooth Snoop Packet Capture: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.

    Bluetooth Snoop Packet Capture: Full entry added.