My Blackberry Curve 8520 keeps restarting!

Hello everyone
For the past 1,5 month my Blackberry randomly chooses to reboot itseld once or rwice a day. In addition the battery drains itself very quickly (barely lasts a day despite very limited usage). I bought a new battery but the problem persists. Any info would be much appreciated.
Device info
Your carrier: Vodafone Greece
Model info and OS version : Curve 8520, v5.0.0.681 (Bundle 1168, Platform 5.2.0.67)
Apps and free space
File free 113784813 Bytes
Did a battery pull fix your issue? NO
Apps installed and their version if possible:
eofficeMobileDataAlerter (version 310.907.171.758)
Foursquare (version 3.1.5)
LinkedIn (version 1.5)
Player of youtube (vesrion 1.2.94)
Quintessentially City Cuides (version 1.5)
ScanLife Barcode Reader (vesrion 3.1.17)
WeatherTrax (version 2.400)
WhatsApp (version 2.6.7421)
Numerous Blackbeery apps like App World, Messnger, Docs to Go, Brickbreaker, Messnger, App Center, Memopad, Sudoku, Tasks, Passoword Keeper, Texas Holdem King 2, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger)

Hello MuffleSnufle,
Perform a reload or upgrade your BlackBerry® Device Software to address the issue with your BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 randomly restarting. For more information on this procedure see the following article:
How to update or reinstall BlackBerry Device Software using BlackBerry Desktop Software - http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB03901
We hope this helps.
Thank you.
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As mentioned earlier in the thread replace your battery especially if its 2 years old, its max life span has been reached.
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