My Iphone 4 loses charge while charging.

I have been having a couple different problems with my Iphone 4 lately I thought when I went to the Apple store yesterday it would be better. In some ways my Iphone is working better but for some reason when I charge my phone it slowly loses charge. It usually doesn't go below 90% but still why would it do this? Yesterday when I brought it in they redid the firmware saying it might be corrupted but it doesn't seem that has anything to do with the charging. I actually bought an entirely different cord thinking maybe mine was broken or something. So it's definitely not the cord considering the help I just got didn't make the problem any less prominent. My other problem was that my battery was draining like crazy whenever I didn't use it very much. I'd be working and check my phone on my break and it would be down to 40% or 30%! I charge my phone all night so I have no idea how it would lose so much battery. Since they re-installed the firmware im not sure if it will keep doing this or not but I will definitely go back if I keep having problems. The biggest thing is the charging issue, does anyone have any ideas?

It is actually an Apple Ipad charger I'm using just bought a new one at the Apple store yesterday cause I thought my old Iphone 4 charger had someone wrong with it and was making it not charge correctly. They were both Apple ones I would never use a 3rd party one or a computer.
I can check on email being the cause I did hear that can be some peoples problems with charging. Other then that I just put all my apps back on (when they did the firmware install I lost everything and had to put it all back on) since I did that I haven't actually used any apps to see how my phone would work. No facebook and no game center should be running. Also no exchange accounts just regular yahoo ones. So its either App Store or Email. What do you do to make your email not drain so much battery while charging?

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