Iphone 3GS Battery Draining

I know this has been a prominent topic before and I have checked other threads but I haven't really found a solution yet. When I first got my iphone a month ago, I did notice that the battery would drain quickly. I did nothing about it because I was no big deal, then I updgraded my facebook app and noticed that the battery would start to drain very quickly. I looked at the forums and it was suggested that the notifications from facebook may be causing the problem. SO I logged off and did other stuff to help the situation (disabled push, notifications, location services, reduced the brightness of the screen, dont use 3G very much, wifi turned off, bluetooth off, etc) I also tried conditioning the battery where you let it drain completely then recharge it. Now at this point I've noticed that in standby mode the battery seems to still be draining, at a slower pace, but nonetheless still draining. I've also bought several new apps like isystem and memory something or other to try to see what apps are still running in the background but I dont really know if this is working either. IS there anything I can still do to help this? Have I missed something? I really dont want to take it back to apple, I rather that be my last resort.
Message was edited by: Alejandra Olivares

Ever since I did the update a couple of days ago I have the same problem. Is there a fix for this?

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