topic Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand in 1 Series

Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

FrederickZhUK — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:12:35 GMT

I recently purchased a TP-Link RE655BE AP, which supports WiFi 6GHz with both WiFi 6e and 7 protocols. After spending a little time to set it up, I was excited to finally embrace the next-gen WiFi on my 1 VI.

Unfortunately however, my phone wasn't able to pick up the 6GHz-only SSID; although I could use the MLO one (2.4/5/6GHz 802.11b/g/n/ac/ax/be), it just stayed on 5GHz with WiFi 6.

Upon further investigation, I suspect that WiFi 6e and 7 are disabled in Australia as AU is missing from the lists in /oem/etc/customization/config.prop:

ro.vendor.sony.wlan.6e_cc_list=HK,JP,AT,BE,BG,HR,CY,CZ,DK,EE,FI,FR,DE,GR,HU,IE,IT,LV,LI,LT,LU,MT,NL,NO,PL,PT,RO,SK,SI,ES,SE,GB,CH,IS,MY,TH,TW,SG,MO ro.vendor.sony.wlan.11be_cc_list=HK,JP,AT,BE,BG,HR,CY,CZ,DK,EE,FI,FR,DE,GR,HU,IE,IT,LV,LI,LT,LU,MT,NL,NO,PL,PT,RO,SK,SI,ES,SE,GB,CH,IS,TH,TW,SG,US,MO

According to Wikipedia, Australia allows the same channels as those in UK, and New Zealand allows the same ones as those in Japan. Since both UK and Japan are in the lists already, I hope it's not too much trouble to add AU and NZ too. Could the Xperia developers kindly consider? Thank you!

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

FrederickZhUK — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:21:23 GMT

Someone also reported that their 1 VI was able to use 6GHz in Japan but not in Australia (https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/3z4yw6m2?p=29#r562), which seems to support my assumption.

And another potentially related issue is that 1 VI cannot do 5GHz tethering in Australia.

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

FrederickZhUK — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 07:14:46 GMT

Just upgraded to 69.1.A.2.100 and noticed MY was added to the 802.11be list:

Come on, Sony, you can do us Aussies a favour too!

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

Tolarch — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:52:46 GMT

I have also come to conclusion after trying everything that WIFI 7 is not working in Turkey too. I am quite sure that there is nothing wrong with the country nor the Unifi U7 Pro/Pro Max because I can see that latest Samsung and Apple devices are being able to connect to 6ghz wifi7 on my the routers mentioned in Turkey. Therefore, dear Sony, I expect for your support on this.

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

MaggieGreene — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:47:19 GMT

@Tolarch If you check the specifications of the Xperia 1 VI, it says that it supports up to Wifi 6: https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/support/mobile-phones-tablets-mobile-phones/xperia-1-vi-256gb/specifications However, you try the steps here as an attempt: https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/support/mobile-phones-tablets-mobile-phones/xperia-1-vi-256gb/articles/00260935

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

FrederickZhUK — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:01:12 GMT

@MaggieGreene

The first link you shared actually says 1 VI supports WiFi 7 though:

IEEE802.11be = WiFi 7 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_7

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

Tolarch — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:10:46 GMT

@MaggieGreene

Hi there, I think you are confusing 6ghz with WiFi 6. As mentioned earlier, "be" is actually WiFi 7 and it's written as this phone supports it with 6ghz bands.

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

FrederickZhUK — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:23:31 GMT

Upgraded to 69.1.A.2.160. No changes unfortunately.

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

Tolarch — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:50:54 GMT

Unfortunately, same here too, had an expectation for .160 firmware, but no luck. Still 5ghz wifi 6 connection.

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

MaggieGreene — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:44:37 GMT

Hi @FrederickZhUK, try to perform a software repair using Xperia companion and check if the issue remains: https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/support/mobile-phones-tablets-mobile-phones/xperia-1-vi-256gb/articles/SX604601

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

FrederickZhUK — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:55:43 GMT

Hi @MaggieGreene, I'm afraid that didn't help. Could you please file an internal ticket to track this issue? Thank you!

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

MaggieGreene — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:00:30 GMT

Hi @FrederickZhUK, try the steps in this link: https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/support/mobile-phones-tablets-mobile-phones/articles/00292437 If the issue remains after these steps, you can contact Sony AU: https://www.sony.com.au/ Or Sony NZ: https://www.sony.co.nz/ they'll be able to assist you further.

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

FrederickZhUK — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:22:11 GMT

Upgraded to 69.1.A.2.189. Still no change unfortunately.

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

TheGOAT — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:44:25 GMT

Hi @FrederickZhUK In that case you will need to report this to Sony technical team.

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

FrederickZhUK — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 07:17:51 GMT

@TheGOAT Thanks for the pointer! May I know how I can get in touch with the technical team?

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

TheGOAT — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 14:06:14 GMT

@FrederickZhUK Here you go I checked, and this is the UK contacting link: https://services.sony.co.uk/supportmvc/en/contact/

Re: Please allow Xperia 1 VI to utilise WiFi 6e and 7 in Australia and New Zealand

Tolarch — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:51:31 GMT

Hi,

Xperia 1 VI owner here. My device cannot see 6 GHz Wi-Fi networks while in Turkey. Other (non-Sony) devices connect to 6 GHz just fine on the same router.

Turkey (TR) has already approved 6 GHz for Wi-Fi use, so is there any plan to add TR to the supported country codes in a future update?

Thanks.