BATTERY LIFE IS HORRIBLE

I was wondering if I was the only one with this issue. I mean I charged the phone last night. Browsed through the internet like 6 sites less than 30 minutes on all of them on my WIFI not even edge. did 2 calls totalling 20 minutes through out the day and showed it the phone to 4 friends about each feature my battery died in a matter of 9 hrs. is this normal. I don't think I will be happy with this. Unless everyone is on the same page. What happened to the talk time of 8 hrs and 6 hrs of internet usage?!?

I just got done reading another post about this, and I think the guy in that post figured it out. I would really appreciate if someone who knows what to do would post after I post my issue and what a few others have said.
Ok so I am on Iphone #2 my first had a peace of dirt under the screen....and I hadn't even taken the factory plastic off the screen yet.
First iphone had adverage battery life. I switched from a blackjack with a 3day charge and thats with watching videos listening to music and using the 3g internet(why did I swtitch ...I'm an apple fan boy). Iphone has about a 2 and half day charge doing the same but the system is glitched and there is a trick to it(I have not figured this crap out). My iphone at home on my personal wireless service can last forever it seems. I'm watching movies listening to music all that crap. I had to go to a conferance at a hotel recently and my ipod has gone from adverage performance to to needing a charge after almost half a day. I loose power while the phone is suppose to be in standby and I know this because if you go to usage the numbers are reading as if it's in constant use. I know this is different because before the numbers would reflect the phone being in standby.
example: usage 6 hours 13 minutes, standby 6 hours and 13 minutes....before it would read usage 30 minutes standby 7 hours.
Someone has posted that software can continue running while in standby mode and my thing is how do you stop it? and has anyone heard of a fix for this glitch. That has to be the key to the battery problem because when I get home I am back to normal performance.

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