Iphone 3GS looses power when not plugged into a charger

Hi,
I have an Iphone 3GS 16GB. I have downloaded latest software. However phone looses batterty life as soon as its taken off charger .. anyone know what I can do ? Thanks

How much are you losing?
http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html

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CABA6372-AF3C-DB63-3D27-0422ED36F895
Fri Apr 10 20:26:57 2015
*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8002217cc2): Kernel trap at 0xffffff800232b4e8, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x00000000092e0028, CR3: 0x000000000317c001, CR4: 0x00000000001626e0
RAX: 0x00000000002e0000, RBX: 0xffffff81e1a47da0, RCX: 0x00000000092e0000, RDX: 0xffffff801fb7f4e0
RSP: 0xffffff81ea5dbca8, RBP: 0xffffff81ea5dbd50, RSI: 0xffffff80028f38e0, RDI: 0xffffff81e1702500
R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0x0000000000000001, R10: 0x000000000000000b, R11: 0x000000000000000b
R12: 0xffffff81e1702500, R13: 0xffffff8201a0f000, R14: 0x0000000000000001, R15: 0xffffff8020572dc0
RFL: 0x0000000000010206, RIP: 0xffffff800232b4e8, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000000
Fault CR2: 0x00000000092e0028, Error code: 0x0000000000000002, Fault CPU: 0x0
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81ea5db950 : 0xffffff800212bda1
0xffffff81ea5db9d0 : 0xffffff8002217cc2
0xffffff81ea5dbb90 : 0xffffff8002234b73
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0xffffff81ea5dbd50 : 0xffffff8002377b34
0xffffff81ea5dbda0 : 0xffffff800255e5a1
0xffffff81ea5dbdd0 : 0xffffff800255559f
0xffffff81ea5dbeb0 : 0xffffff800235879b
0xffffff81ea5dbed0 : 0xffffff8002342e24
0xffffff81ea5dbf40 : 0xffffff800234d027
0xffffff81ea5dbf50 : 0xffffff800264ba86
0xffffff81ea5dbfb0 : 0xffffff8002235376
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