In this guide, we will show you the steps to enable the WiFi 6E 6Ghz on your Sony Xperia 1 V. US and Taiwan are the most popular regions where this device has made its presence felt. However, both these variants have their fair share of caveats and perks. While its US variant does not allow you to unlock the bootloader, it does have the support for WiFi 6E. On the other hand, it’s just the reverse for the Taiwan variant- supports bootloader unlocking but not 6Ghz.
So the users who have imported Sony Xperia 1 V from Taiwan are having a tough time in enabling the WiFi 6E 6Ghz on their device. Upon doing some further digging, it was ultimately found out that the device hardware does support 6E, it’s simply disabled on the software front [verifying via the iw list command in Termux], even though the country code was already set to the US [verified through the iw reg get country command].
Moreover, upon comparing both the region’s firmwares, we found out that they both have different props set for several RF-related values in /oem/etc/customization/config.prop. Making use of the aforementioned information, XDA Member ‘noellemercer’ wrote a short script to override the relevant props on the Taiwan firmware with the props from the US firmware and placed it in the/data/adb/post-fs-data.d directory.
The below script is set to executable, i.e. chmod +x to ensure Magisk would run it before most of the OS has booted, and after that, it was able to see and connect to 6GHz networks successfully.
How to Enable WiFi 6E 6Ghz on Xperia 1 V
It goes without saying that you should root your device beforehand and only then try out this script to enable WiFi 6E 6Ghz frequency on the Sony Xperia 1 V. Apart from this script, we tried flashing the US modem firmware onto Taiwan via NewFlash, but this cross-flashing didn’t get the job done. So the below script might be your only way out.
#!/system/bin/sh resetprop -n ro.vendor.sony.wlan.6e_cc_list US resetprop -n ro.vendor.product.rf.id PDX223-A2US resetprop -n ro.oem_ant_switch_index_table 0,0,2,0,0,2,2,0,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,0,0,2,0,0,2,2,0,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,0,0,2,0,0,2,2,0,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,0,0,2,0,0,2,2,0,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2 resetprop -n ro.oem_sar_back_off_index_table 1,2,8,1,6,3,8,1,5,2,8,1,5,2,8,1,1,2,8,1,6,3,8,1,5,2,8,1,5,2,8,1
If you are still unable to enable WiFi 6E 6Ghz even after carrying out the aforementioned tweak, then add the below line to the above code and re-run the script
resetprop -n ro.boot.wificountrycode US
That’s it. These were the steps to enable WiFi 6E 6Ghz frequency on the Sony Xperia 1 V. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
