Wireless stick lite serial1 RX not working

is there some trick to getting Serial1 to work on the wireless stick lite? I notice a solder bridge on the bottom of the board next to GPIO9 / U1_RX. Can’t tell if its a jumper or rework but it is on both boards I have.

I never get Serial1.available() to return true. I tried connecting pin 9 to pin 10 (loopback). It is the RX side that isn’t working, TX is fine.

I tried both:
Serial1.begin(115200)
and
Serial1.begin(115200,SERIAL_8N1,9,10);

The same code works on an AVR (also with TX1 and RX1 connected)
Serial1.write(‘a’);
delay(10);
while(Serial1.available()){
Serial.print(“1:”);
uint8_t c = Serial1.read();
Serial.println©;
}

root cause: esp32 Arduino 2.0.2 bug https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/pull/6133 upgrading to 2.0.3 fixed it.