Decrease battery life since Maxx software upgrade

My Droid Maxx HD had excellent battery life prior to my recent software upgrade that occurred earlier this week. Now come 5pm my battery that use to last till 9pm is dead! What can I do to extend the life of the battery so it does what I bought it for?

Sorry for the battery issues, but let's narrow down what could be doing it. I'm gonna provide some information that will help you this. Some of the information will have a question before it, and the information will clarify why the question is important.
How are your charging your device on a normal basis? If you are charging it in the car more often than the wall, that will not give you a quality charge and you will see the charge drain faster than charging it from an outlet.
How do you close your apps? Most game apps are intensive on your battery if they remain open, even if you are not actively using the app. Simply pressing the home button doesn't allow your device to "sleep" so you're going to have a degredation in battery life.
Have you updated the apps since your device software updated? If the app version you currently have isn't what is most current, it would cause issues with overall performance.
What charger are you using? If it's not the charger that came with the device, or an approved charger you would have issues getting a quality charge.
Do you recall any app you downloaded right before you began having issues? Some apps are "high risk" and interfere with your device and it's functioning. If you have installed an app right before this started you can try uninstalling them in reverse order from their installation.
Well, I'm done taking up your time and I hope this information helps. If you find out it is an app you recently downloaded, but you want the app I would suggest either posting some feedback to the app developers. An alternative solution would be to purchase a charging case/portable charger. Good luck with your battery issues.

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I just returned from the Apple Store where the Genius was unable to provide me with any assistance. The best advice he had was to engender community support for Apple to issue a software fix for my problem. This is my problem:
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