Appalling Q10 battery life

I've been having problems with the battery life on my Q10 for several months, and is continuing to get worse. I've had absolutely no success with offical BlackBerry help, so I'm coming here as a last resort before I finally jump ship and get an Android phone.
My problem has been that my Q10 has been unable to make it to the end of the day with NO use except for BBMing my wife, a bit of email and some light web browsing. I don't run any apps in the background that don't run at default when I boot up the Q10. I've tred disabling wifi and all the other suggestions here: http://docs.blackberry.com/es-es/smartphone_users/​deliverables/50635/als1342451670263.jsp
I thought it might have been the patchy coverage from AT&T (I was running 10.1) so I jumped ship to T-mobile, and installed 10.2.1.2156. This seemed to help for around 2 days and now it's worse than ever - my battery will not even make it far past lunch time now. I bought a couple of new batteries and I get through the day by swapping betwene three of them. Using a brand-new battery, this is from when I unplugged my phone from the charger this morning: 
I'm not sure what left to try - could it be a fault in the device itself? 10.2.1.2156 seemed to solve my woes when I installed in on Saturday, but something weird happened to my phone on Tuesday: everything in the phone reacts very sluggishly, as if I was running hundreds of apps in the background. BBM won't open a message from the hub, I have to go through the BBM icon. Using device monitor, I see that 'Standby' is what seems to be devouring my battery. My phone seems to be killing itself doing something, but I've no idea what.
I'm using an SQN100-1 (bought almost as soon as it came out) - if anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this, they would be gratefully received. Swapping batteries around all day is ridiculous, and the delays in the phone are making me seriously eye up a Samsung Galaxy. I love my physical keys, but I also need a phone that can meet the basic requirements of functioning all day...
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Nope, I only have the default apps installed. Had a look and can't see BB travel. I've found this thread in the forums:
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-​10-OS-Device-Software/Battery-Drain-with-10-2-0-42​...
My system process is burning through 50 to 70% usage on my CPU. I think this is what is killing my phone. My wife is currently in hospital with a complicted pregnancy so I could get 'the call' at any moment. I just put in a new battery, which my phone estimates will be dead in 5 hours. I can't afford to be out of phone contact at all at the moment, and I'd rather avoid having to go buy a new phone on the way home...

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