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    New Vaio - Battery Keeps Losing Power When the PC Is Shut Off

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by hmkim, Jul 27, 2007.

  1. evilaliv3

    evilaliv3 Notebook Enthusiast

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    i'we written quite the same thing in english and italian

    i don't know. can you explain why?
     
    evilaliv3, Aug 19, 2008
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  2. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    Yes I realized you had trnaslted it. Thanks for that.

    I'll give you a hint on the screen name. My last name is Shell.

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, Aug 19, 2008
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  3. bbasra

    bbasra Notebook Evangelist

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    Does the New Sony Z series suffer losing power when the system is shutdown?

    I really hope not as i've just ordered one. :-(
     
    bbasra, Aug 19, 2008
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  4. noki388

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    have you received yours yet? i may be tempted to get a z instead of the sr if it didnt have this problem
     
    noki388, Aug 31, 2008
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  5. newtothis

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    Sorry to disappoint you, but my Z590 has the exact same issue. Quite high actually: 8% loss in 24 hours. But, like someone stated earlier, I'm not going to lose sleep over 8%. I still get over 4.5hrs on stamina with 6/8 brightness and wifi on... (also, as noted, the drain doesn't seem to affect my overall battery life i.e. I get about 4.5 hours with or without drain... so it might be some sort of sensor or calibration issue after all?)
     
    newtothis, Sep 2, 2008
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  6. isosunrise

    isosunrise Notebook Evangelist

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    I own two Vaio laptops; both never have had the battery drain problem in hibernate. One is an older Vaio V505 (factory-installed XP Home SP3 with dual boot clean-install Vista Ultimate SP1). The other is a new Vaio G2 (clean-install Vista Ultimate SP1). I removed all Vaio bloat-ware (programs and startups in msconfig and services) except hotkeys related and Power Management (I like that software for disabling drives). I have no scheduled tasks like antivirus scans or automatic windows updated (all disabled, manual). I checked my power state mapping and a few of my devices in S4 is D2 but that does not appear to drain my battery. Just letting you guys know. I do think it is software related, probably some program or setting is doing this. Good luck.
     
    isosunrise, Sep 8, 2008
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  7. Rahul

    Rahul Notebook Prophet

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    I have not had this issue on my TZ, I hope it is not an issue with the Z. I have had this issue with my Sony PSP though.
     
    Rahul, Sep 8, 2008
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  8. AFD

    AFD Notebook Consultant

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    That's odd. My TZ2000 loses significant battery life during hibernation and while completely shut down. Did you install all the Sony utilities when you downgraded to XP?

    Never had battery issues w/my PSP though =)
     
    AFD, Sep 8, 2008
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  9. anawrahta

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    I never had this issue with Vista on my TZ. Now that I'm back on OSX it seems to be happening at a rate of about 15% a night...rats.
     
    anawrahta, Oct 19, 2008
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