Droid Bionic battery dying since ICS and 4G

I have owned my Bionic for just over a year. Recently I upgraded to ICS and last Friday Nov. 9th our area went to 4G. My battery is dying quickly......Example...as of 10:03AM my phone has been on for 3 hours, the screen shows that it has been on for 31 minutes, and I am down to 70% battery after a full charge. I did do a factory reset yesterday due to issues with the Android OS using up over 40% of battery - now it is at 28%. I have turned down screen brightness, lengthened updates, I have wi-fi turned off as I do not use it, etc. I don't want to have to limit everything, or it really isn't worth having the phone.
Phone completely dies each night around 10 with light use.
Any ideas without considering a new phone?

That certainly is a strange phenomenon, veriozonjj68117. Clearing the cache http://vz.to/P5s0JC and temporary internet files http://vz.to/rYO9Ym can sometimes help. The system cache clearing that ginnypres mentioned are:
Power down phone
Hold volume up/down & power simultaneously
Use volume down to navigate to 'Recovery', use volume up to select
Should see screen with triangle and exclamation point next to an Android
Press volume up/down simultaneously
Use volume rocker to navigate to 'wipe cache' and use power button to select
Once finished, use volume rocker to navigate to 'reboot system now' and use power button to select
That is a fantastic way of helping to clear out all the cookie crumbs on your phone and a great step before the need to resort to resetting http://vz.to/nExWmP the device.
Thank you
JenniferH_VZW
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