It is a windows settings.

Go to control panel > power option > Choose a plan > Change plan settings > Set the brightness.

But i don't recommend changing settings of "Power Saver" plan.

Added you name onto the list.

Sorry to hear about your SZ.

But why you ordered online for TP? The package for TP is better than Sony STyle store?

in Sony Style Store you can get free RAM upgrade + MS Office Home And Student Full version. That's what i heard from Sony Style BTS.

Hi bro,

Y you dont recommend Power Saver?? it effect the performance of the laptop?

This post has been edited by paikut: May 4 2009, 05:46 PM

No la. power saver plan purpose is to save power (battery life) right. So better don't do anything as it is already set to reduce the usage of the power. but it's all up to you. I'm just suggesting.

BTW your issue already solved?

im using FW33G, the battery if leave on the laptop, the electric inside the battery will gone very fast?

I was charge it until 100% full, the next day i open the laptop only show 48%. The battery got problem or all vaio is like that?

Upgrade the FW33G to Windows Vista Home premium with service pack one get see 4gb

No, normal battery is not like that. You didn't turn on the battery care function did you?
On a side note, always charging the battery to 100% full is not the best thing. Keeping it at 40% to 50% is best.


As I understand, it reports you have 4GB but it cannot use up to 4GB.

Well,I did use up to 4GB , haha ... heavy user

Are you using 64bit OS?

Ok i did edit the brightness already thanks..

My issue ok already la get better understanding.



If normaly i use the laptop using elec cable without battery,will this be good to my battery in terms of the life span and the lasting of usage.

Thanks. I am not in Mal and only will be back in July. Ordered it so that it can be delivered to a friend who will bring over for me.

how to turn on the battery care function? why need to keep the battery at 40-50% ?

the battery drain (or you call it as "the battery if leave on the laptop, the electric inside the battery will gone very fast") is known problem for previous release batch for sr and z series too, but in your case, to decrease until 48% isnt normal for the battery just for one night. your battery lifespan might have been reduce in this case.

you can check at control panel, if i'm not mistaken. the battery best keep at 40% only if you decide to not use the battery for like week(s) or month(s).

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Added on May 5, 2009, 8:15 amyes, but please keep the battery level at 40% before you do that.

This post has been edited by Miyabi: May 5 2009, 08:17 AM

i have the suspected 'battery drain' issues within this few days.
dunno if it's a real problem or just the setting totally eats the power quickly.

what i usually do on my Z is during usage, i used to charge up to 100%, then use high performance setting.
after that before going to sleep or away i unplug the power cable & put the laptop on sleep mode.
next day about evening time it's totally no power so i have to restart as normal.


is it advisable to do that?

i wouldnt recommend to do that if you want to keep the battery level at 100%, well, usually around 97% for fully boot to windows. t overcome this problem, what people do is, charge it fully, then take out the battery from the notebook instead of let it inside. the next time you want to use the battery, you've to insert it back to the notebook. it might hassle to some user, but until now, sadly, this issue has no cure.

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Added on May 5, 2009, 4:28 pmfor one night for fully charged battery inside the power off notebook , the battery will have around 75% ~ 95% roughly on the next day.

This post has been edited by Miyabi: May 5 2009, 04:31 PM

yeah, i still have remaining about 75-90% power left the next day when i put the laptop in sleep/hibernate mode.

thanks for your advise, i'll try to avoid that for the sake of battery life

Hmm why sleep instead of hibernate or shutdown?
AFAIK they are not the same, sleep doesn't fully power down which means it is still draining your battery, while hibernate does fully power down.

i know that, it only turns off the LCD & few hardwares, but not fully

easy to start almost instantly that's why i use sleep.
sometimes hibernate & shutdown completely takes longer time to restart. most of VAIOs i've ever use have that problem.

Hi all,

would like to ask you all any of u all encounter the battery goes "Kab00MM" explod??Because before this i had heard alot of case mostly in us the battery goes BOOM and vaio is famous for that.

That goes through my mind before i buy my FW35 but i had wanted a VIAO so badly i dint even care and i wanted to get mac book instead but they ran out of stock so lastly i still go for VIAO without any doubt

It's VAIO not VIAO (Video Audio Intelligence Organizer)

FW series already 2 generation, i never had customer complained about FW at all. In fact, this model has the least customer sent their unit to the service center.

This post has been edited by maxizanc: May 5 2009, 11:02 PM

Sorry typing error..still not use to the keypad because i only use it at night and day time using HP at office. Well i mean in general not only FW because i remeber i saw it from LYN as well saying that the VAIO battery goes boom in US very frequent so just wondering if there is any such cases in Malaysia or not. but 1 thing i know the price for VAIO is kinda HOT