Battery drain - any suggestions?

I've had my 3G for about a year, and I've noticed lately the battery has been terrible. I have wi-fi and blutooth off, push is on, set to fetch every 15 minutes. Even when its sleeping it drains, which it never used to do. The standby time used to be fantastic. I do a hard shutdown (holding the sleep and home until apple logo appears) every other day. the talk time is barely an hour. Do you guys have any other suggestions that I can try? I'm trying to hold out until January for an iPhone 4, when my contract is elIgible for a full upgrade, but this is getting ridiculous. Thanks!

Two suggestions:
Do you have an exchange account on your phone? If yes, delete it and set it up again
Do have Wi-Fi activated? If yes, remember that in iOS4 Wi-Fi stays on even in sleep mode, which will drain your battery as well.
If this does not help, try to restore "as new iphone" and don't use the last backup to restore, set it up again manually. This is what I did with my 3G and I can't find any difference to 3.1.3 concerning battery life

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About Batteries. http://www.apple.com/batteries/
From //www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
"Battery Lifespan For Apple notebooks with removable batteries — such as previous generation MacBook and MacBook Pro computers — a properly maintained battery is designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity at 300 full charge and discharge cycles. You may choose to replace your battery when it no longer holds sufficient charge to meet your needs.
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