diff --git a/src/tools/interop/idt/capture/platform/android/capabilities.py b/src/tools/interop/idt/capture/platform/android/capabilities.py
index 28ee0699439319..ef54ef513287e1 100644
--- a/src/tools/interop/idt/capture/platform/android/capabilities.py
+++ b/src/tools/interop/idt/capture/platform/android/capabilities.py
@@ -20,15 +20,15 @@ def __init__(self, platform: "Android"):
         self.is_64 = False
 
     def check_capabilities(self):
-        self.logger.info("Checking if device has tcpdump")
-        self.has_tcpdump = self.platform.run_adb_command(
-            "shell which tcpdump", capture_output=True).finished_success()
         self.logger.info("Checking if device has root")
         self.has_root = self.platform.run_adb_command(
             "shell which su", capture_output=True).finished_success()
         if self.has_root:
             self.logger.warning("adb root!")
             Bash("adb root", sync=True).start_command()
+        self.logger.info("Checking if device has tcpdump")
+        self.has_tcpdump = self.platform.run_adb_command(
+            "shell which tcpdump", capture_output=True).finished_success()
         self.logger.info("Checking device CPU arch")
         cpu_arch_return = self.platform.run_adb_command(
             "shell cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep rch", capture_output=True)