topic problem with fr415s battery life in PCs & Accessories

problem with fr415s battery life

senden — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 11:51:27 GMT

hi, i got my fr415s about a month ago, since having it i cant seem to get my battery to last that long at all, if my battery will only last up to an hour, can anyone tell me how to lengthen this? ive discharged it fully a couple of times and tht but it doesnt seem to help, ive read in a previous post to change the screen brightness will this help? also how do u change your screen brightness? im new to both xp and laptops, please help me someone because my main function for my laptop will be 4 hour train journeys

Poor battery life

JoeB. — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:27:57 GMT

hi,
sorry to tell that you should have bought a centrino notebook for train-rides longer than 2 hours... my battery life is poor as well, but it does help a little to use 2 batteries.

joe
(if your battery is starting to decay... give it a maximum drain with some sort of external device and then a recharge with the notebook turned off!

problem with fr415s battery life

senden — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:39:52 GMT

yeh but it says my laptop should get 1 hour and 45 mins, and im only getting an hour, im a bit annoyed with that, and im only 17 so going out to buying a new battery isnt that easy coz i dont really have much money (spent most of my funds on this laptop).

yes... they do cost...

JoeB. — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:46:28 GMT

i went to ebay and bought me compatible noname battery for 92 euro's... sony says that they can ruin your maschine... but other users and people told me that they have no problems with these batteries.

problem with fr415s battery life

kee-lo_ — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:04:25 GMT

Before you run out and buy a new battery did you change some of the power saving settings in PowerPannel?
For example, lowering the brightness of the LCD can give you a few extra minutes.
Putting it on adaptive processing can save you 10s of minutes
A bit of tweaking could save you £70+

oh yes... but no thanks

JoeB. — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:13:41 GMT

greetings KEE-LO... hows life treating you???

my experience with the power-management is that, it is good for your notebook to be turned off wenn it is not in use... but please... what good is power-management when you are actually working with your notebook... I mean who likes to have their screen turned off every 2 minutes just so your battery could last a couple of minutes longer. it actually makes me mad when i am in the middle of reading a page an all of a sudden my screen shuts off... come on folks... battery life has to improve in the notebook sector!

i need raw power... for at least 1h and 30m.

problem with fr415s battery life

kee-lo_ — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:17:41 GMT

Hey Joe, not bad thnx :smileygrin:
Yeah I agree, but as the poster is only 17, we have to do what we can with what we have, so lowering the brightness, turning things off every 5mins can all help.

howdy...!

JoeB. — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:23:26 GMT

so true KEE-LO... but the only thing that does help a little is to turn the brightness down and to cancel all or most of the active backround processes.

problem with fr415s battery life

kee-lo_ — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:34:43 GMT

Yeah, things you don't need - don't run

the slogan...

JoeB. — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:48:22 GMT

hey kee-lo isn't that supposed to be a SONY slogan.... "if we don't want it... you don't need it"... grins

problem with fr415s battery life

kee-lo_ — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:59:54 GMT

Didn't think so.
At the moment it's "Go Create"

problem with fr415s battery life

senden — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:43:13 GMT

ok thx for the advice kee lo, but what and where is powerpannel?? ive looked at my power settings and cant see anywhere which lets me change the brightness of my screen, and what is adaptive processing? sorry if these seem like silly questions, also sony shouldnt put that the battery wil last 1 hour and 45 minutes unless it actually does without changing settings or at least give u a manual to tell u how to make the most use of the battery, alls i got with my laptop is a lot of useless manuals, and the guide on the cd is just as bad.l

problem with fr415s battery life

kee-lo_ — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:56:47 GMT

PowerPanel is a program for VAIOs to control the power. It's a power gage icon in the system tray.

In there you can change stuff to suit your enviorment, and what you're doing (word processing, spreadsheets etc).

Righ click this icon, and go to edit / change profile.

Change the settings in there and save it as a new scheme.

Edit: oh yeah forgot the adaptive processing. This just means that if you're doing Word Processing, it will use less CPU time, saving power.

problem with fr415s battery life

senden — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:10:41 GMT

ok thanks, and if tht dont work wud u recommend me gettin a new battery?

problem with fr415s battery life

senden — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:38:03 GMT

ok ive looked up everything and still no change im adjusted my power settings, stil no good, i still cant seem to find how to change my screen brightness tho, also cant find powerpannel, is this a programme which sony have added on? coz ive done a system recovery once on my laptop and it didnt reinstall all the software my laptop came with.

problem with fr415s battery life

kee-lo_ — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 17:57:02 GMT

Hi

Do you have a P4 or P4m?

problem with fr415s battery life

senden — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:14:17 GMT

i dont really know for sure but im 80% sure its p4 it aint got p4 mobile on it if thts wot u mean, sorry for being a pain but this is really killin me spendin so much money on a laptop which battery only lasts an hour

problem with fr415s battery life

kee-lo_ — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:28:15 GMT

Ah there's your problem, as it's a desktop chip you can't control things like that.

problem with fr415s battery life

senden — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:21:56 GMT

so ur tellin me there aint nout i can do to impove my battery jeez wot a rip off at like £1.5k

battery power-management

JoeB. — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:38:00 GMT

hi,

look at your keyboard... look for the blue letters... keep the blue FN button pressed while you press the function key(F5) then use your arrow keys to ajust.

check for a utility called POWERPANEL... there you can set all of the power-management possiblities

Joe