e1505 Screen Brightness?

Anyone w/ a 1505 know how to max the screen brightness when i'm on battery? Even when I reset the power control settings the screen seems too dim for even indoor use, but after I plug it back in everything returns to bright and dandy. anyone?


please please?

 

quickset does that (the Q icon in your task tray) but to manually control brightness just hit fn + up arrow or down arrow. the blue writing on your keys is what hitting it with fn will do. you could always adjust the quickset not to dim on battery power

 

Start -> Programs -> Dell QuickSet -> QuickSet -> Power Wizard -> (Go through the rpocess until you come to the "Selecting a Power Scheme" screen) -> Edit Scheme -> Running on Batteries Column, Display Brightness -> Set to your desired brightness (I use setting 4 - you'll hardly notice it's lower and you gain about 15 minutes of time compared to full brightness)

QuickSet needs to be running for this feature to work. It should start itself up automatically after you launch it just once, but make sure it's there on a restart. You'll also get the ability to see your volume on screen when using the function or media center buttons to adjust it. Very handy. Additionally, through quickset, go to Internal Network Card Power Management and set it to turn off on battery. It saves a very decent amount of power, and I figure if I can plug in to a network, I can also likely plug in to an outlet.

Hope this helps.

Mike

 

Turning off the network card when battery is running does save a lot of bettery life. Thanks for the advice!

 

Any time.

Mike

 

i thought it was on startup and turned off the network card on battery by default