Battery and charging issues

I have a DROID X and have been having issues for the last few weeks with my phone staying charged and charging. I have had both my home and car chargers replaced. Everytime I charge my phone it says that it is charging bit the battery level does not improve. When I use my roommates charger it charges fine. Also the battery says I have a certain % of battery left then the next minute it goes down 10%andthat that happens whether it is charging or not. I don't know if a certain app could be causing this or if the phone is junk and I need to get it replaced. Its getting annoying that I have to charge it every night and can't be away from home because I wont have a charger. PLEASE HELP!!!

trfalsone wrote:
What app or type of app would you think could be causing the problem? I don't want to uninstall or factory reset my phone...if I wanted to do that I would just get a replacement phone. I do have an ATK on my phone...
From your home screen, press menu>settings>about phone>battery use (unless Moto moved it). This will give you a list of apps with a percentage of how much battery they have used. Also an app called system panel in the market will help you to monitor what is using system resources. I would also personally recommend uninstalling ATK, though not all users would agree with me. Maybe try turning off autokill and see if that helps. I do agree with dirkbonn, though, that it sounds like a bad charger,

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