Cheers, checked that but its 98% standby which is to be expected as its been sat for three days with no SIM so hasn't been communicating with anything.

However, I've formatted the internal SD card now and done a factory reset and then put the SIM back in, have disabled Google Location and checked Task Manager and apart from the operating system nothing seems to be running now, there's no external SD and the internal SD is completely empty, there are no Apps other than the default ones that come with the operating system, the battery is one notch off full so I'm going to charge it fully now and leave it for a couple of days to see what happens.

I had a similar problem with my Blackberry

It was faulty, a known problem with the model

maybe worth checking out forums etc theremay be similar with that phone

in fact a quick google brings this up www.drainy.net/2012/07/17/batter ... d-finally/ the other thing i would look at is your screen brightness and backlight settings, something that gets overlooked but eats batterys

in fact a quick google brings this up www.drainy.net/2012/07/17/batter ... d-finally/ the other thing i would look at is your screen brightness and backlight settings, something that gets overlooked but eats batterys

what version of android is the phone running? have you connected to Kies on PC to see if there is a software update available? the other option would be flashing an older version.

not sure if this is a possibility, but is it a network branded phone? if you have changed sim to a different network there may be some network-specific apps that are conflicting.

Is running Froyo.xxjpy, I haven't connected it to Kies as I ofund that piece of software to be the most annoying piece of junk that had ever seen the inside of my PC , but I'm willing to try anything.

Its an unlocked phone, my daughter had an O2 contract with it but its now running on my Virgin card - it had these same problems on O2 as well so possibly not network related.

Battery currently stands at 88% since about 10am this morning which is a vast improvement, its stating that most of this has been consumed by the display with a tiny percentage being the standby, which is as you'd expect. I've turned off wi-fi so basically its doing nothing at the moment but wait for incoming calls.

Now upgraded via Kies (I take it all back) to Gingerbread .XXJW4 - we'll see how it copes now.

Have you downloaded a battery monitor? I found GSam battery monitor a pretty good one with a decent log of what's using the battery. it's far better than the stock one anyway.

Mine does it every now and again. A full reboot fixes the problem, so my guess is it's the charger circuit or software going wonky.

Certainly seems to be stable on the new OS, its currently showing 17 hours remaining on the battery which was last charge at 8pm last night, have just switched on Wi-Fi which gave a couple of errors from bits of software that I'd not enabled comms to but so far so good, no lockups or freezes at the moment, like most people all I want from a smartphone is to ALWAYS be ready to accept a call, text or email - the internet and apps stuff is just icing on the cake and not absolutely necessary but when it buggers up the main functions then its ready to be drop-kicked down the garden.

This is the tech thread, you can't use words like that.

Acceptable.

Yup, and we use completely fooked if we don't have the part in boot stock.

Our flow chart shows that the next step for us is "I'll get someone from sales to call you"