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Mobile Broadband Collecting Logs

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Follow these steps to collect the logs related to mobile broadband on a Windows Desktop Device:

*  Open an Administrator Command Prompt window
*  Run the below command to start tracing
    *  netsh trace start wireless_dbg,provisioning overwrite=yes maxSize=999 level=5
*  <Repro the scenario for which you need to collect logs>
*  Run the below command to stop tracing
    *  netsh trace stop

The steps above generate two files:

  1. NetTrace.etl - Contains the traces for the run
  2. NetTrace.cab - Contains additional details about the system that will be useful for debugging

Collecting logs across a reboot

If the repro scenario includes a reboot update the start tracing command as follows:

*  netsh trace start wireless_dbg,provisioning overwrite=yes persist=yes level=5

Please note that PII will be captured in the logs collected using the above method.

Decoding Logs

Run one of these commands to convert the .etl file to a .txt file that can be used for analysis:

* tracefmt<ETL file location>
or
* netsh trace convert <ETL file location>