Brand new iPhone 4 battery drain

I know there are many posts regarding this subject but my issue is very strange. I had a 3GS for 2 years and it had IOS 5.01 but beginning last Friday the battery began to drain. I went to an Apple store and the tech told me that the problem was that the usage time and the standby time was exactly the same. So he tells me to do a restore and set it up as a new phone. I tried everything...restore from backup, restore as a new iPhone...no change. So I am thinking that the battery is toast. Time to upgrade. I go to ATT to get my new iPhone 4 on Wednesday and get home to set it up on iTunes. Now my brand new iPhone 4 is doing exactly the same thing as my former 3GS. I opened a case with Apple today and was told to do a backup then a restore from the backup. I did not sync any of my apps or music. Left work at 5pm with a 100% charge, did not use the phone at all for 2+ hours, checked the charge at it was at 74%. I checked the usage and just as I suspected the usage time and standby time were exactly the same, as if I had been using the phone for 2+ hours. Apple says they will send me another phone but I really don't think the problem is the phone. The only common denominator is iTunes. Any thoughts?

Dlwynn, this is a crazy issue. I can only immagin how frustrating this issue could be for you!
One thing I have found when dealing with any possible hardware or software issue, that I need to get isolated is to scrap the whole back up/restore from back up, and restore the device as new, and see where you are at without all of your stuff on it.
When doing this procedure its important that if you DO have important stuff on the phone you do not want to lose that you back it up in another way...Contacts into windows contacts or use iCloud. You would stand to lose application settings, text messages and call history ..because these are things that are only stored in the back up.
You can save your pictures to your computer using Auto play.
Another way to go about it would be to navigate to your hidden back up folder, copy it to your desktop..restore as new...and if that does not resolve your issue, you put your back up thats on your desktop back into the hidden back up folder, and restore from your back up.
Anyways with all of this being said..If your batter drain issue persists with restoring your device as new in itunes...that would prove a hardware failure.
If the issue goes away after you restore as new. that means that something within your back up was the source of the issue.
The other common thread here is that you keep restoring from your back up.
Anyways I hope this helps you

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