diff --git a/tools/hcidump.1 b/tools/hcidump.1
index 4f19dde..4ac74f3 100644
--- a/tools/hcidump.1
+++ b/tools/hcidump.1
@@ -102,9 +102,6 @@ Extract PPP traffic with pppdump format.
 .BR -A ", " "\-\^\-audio=" "<file>"
 Extract SCO audio data.
 .TP
-.BR -V ", " "\-\^\-verbose"
-Enables a more verbose decoding of every packet.
-.TP
 .BR -Y ", " "\-\^\-novendor"
 Don't display any vendor commands or events and don't show any pin code or link key in plain text.
 .TP
diff --git a/tools/hcidump.c b/tools/hcidump.c
index be83871..32c3963 100644
--- a/tools/hcidump.c
+++ b/tools/hcidump.c
@@ -1000,10 +1000,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 			audio_file = strdup(optarg);
 			break;
 
-		case 'V':
-			flags |= DUMP_VERBOSE;
-			break;
-
 		case 'Y':
 			flags |= DUMP_NOVENDOR;
 			break;
@@ -1046,11 +1042,13 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
 	switch (mode) {
 	case PARSE:
+		flags |= DUMP_VERBOSE;
 		init_parser(flags, filter, defpsm, defcompid, pppdump_fd, audio_fd);
 		process_frames(device, open_socket(device, flags), -1, flags);
 		break;
 
 	case READ:
+		flags |= DUMP_VERBOSE;
 		init_parser(flags, filter, defpsm, defcompid, pppdump_fd, audio_fd);
 		read_dump(open_file(dump_file, mode, flags));
 		break;