N86 Poor Battery - Packet Data Issue

Hi
I have owned my Nokia N86 since July 09; what a great mobile phone apart from its appalling battery life. The tech specs say 15 days but I only get 3 days standby at most even as a very very light user. Often the battery life will drop instantly from ½ bars to zero when I open a GPS app.
I have set up all the power saving options mentioned in other thread but I have identified an issue with the battery draining Packet Data from Vodafone. I end packet data, by holding the red key, each time I close the sider & the packet data symbol below the signal strength bar goes away. However, when I open the slider & unlock the phone I notice the Packet Data is turned back on.
My Packet Data is set up for 'when needed'; unlocking the slider does not mean I need it! Has anyone found a way around this & is my battery life as bad as other peoples? I can’t afford to own a phone which will die on me just as I need to make an urgent call.
Cheers
As an aside when will Nokia finally update its firmware so when I close a program it actually closes & does not go into the background wasting battery life!

PROBLEM IDENTIFIED BUT NOT SOLVED.
I took my N86 into a Nokia Care Center and found the source of my poor battery life and why packet data keeps turning back on after I turn it off:
'Vodafone Internet GPRS keeps reconnecting automatically as it is set for 3G. Other mobile networks allow you to turn 3G off when not needed.'
Found by: settings-connection-destinations-internet-vodafone internet GPRS.
So the ball of blame is now in Vodafones court to change their software & let users deselect 3G when required. Nokia still need to fix the firmware so battery drain/gauge is more accurate & linear.
Any work arounds would be appreciated as at the moment this issue has reduced my battery life by ~80%.
Cheers

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Cache Wipe:
Press and hold the Power button and turn the phone off.
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When the white HBOOT screen appears, use the volume button to move down to “RECOVERY.”
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When the triangle and exclamation appears, hold the Volume Up and Power button at the same time.
Using the volume button, scroll down to “Wipe cache partition” and select it.
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Menu-->System Settings-->Privacy-->under the Backup & Restore items clear the Automatic Restore checkbox.
***NOTE*** By doing this you will lose everything on the phone and internal storage(NOT on the microSD) - you will have to manually reinstall all apps, setup all accounts etc...it take awhile to do but it has solved 99% of the issues I was having: dragginess, dropped 4G, poor battery life etc...
Factory Data Reset
From the screen of your phone, press the Menu button
Tap System Settings.
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Check Erase internal storage if you would like to erase all the data on the phone internal storage such as applications, music, movies or photos.
Tap Reset Phone

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Packet Data Issue & Some Icon

Hi ! I had a problem with my connections . I'm using sun network,for Nokia 5300, but since I changed my simcard, I got a problem with my connection already, im still using a Sun Simcard, but different number, I checked the configuration setting & it's the same , nothing's changed , but the error always say ' PACKET DATA CONNECTION, NOT AVAILABLE' . how will fixed it ? is it depends also in my SIM CARD ? I double check also if my Sim is GPRS activated, & my network says its already activated.
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hope you can heLp me with this ASAP . thanks ALOT
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Hi Sunseg
Thank you for posting and welcome to Nokia Support Discussions!
Resetting the factory settings of the phone would mean that all the personalisation or customization made on the phone will be reset back to its default settings. You received "packet data error" beacuse the GPRS/APN settings of your phone was removed. What you can do is to request the settings from your network provider or you can configure it manually.
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TimothyW wrote:
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