Sudden battery drain

I love my Blackberry Curve BUT I've had untold problems since I got my first one, 2 replacements already and not a particularly heavy user.
Anyway, now over the last couple of days, my battery is draining during only 24 hours and I'm not even using it loads, picking up emails and made a few calls, but nothing excessive.
I've only had this particular one since December. Mind you they might have put my old battery in it, so the battery might be a year old.
Any ideas?
Also anyone else have this many problems? I'm so frustrated, I love the functionality of Blackberry but finding the reality very frustrating. Thinking of jumping ship in Sept when I'm due an upgrade. So it's between the Storm and an iphone.

Here are some good charging tips, please read and you'll see that many of them will apply to you.
http://www.blackberrynews.com/2008/05/20/battery-use-tips-for-your-maximum-battery-life/
Read the part about making sure all applications are closed in the background when you are not needing them.
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Hi, I am new new to the forum and this is my first post.
I have an Xperia Z3 D6653. Lately I have been noticing that the battery has been draining faster than normal. I installed a battery analyzser app for that too.
A few observations:
The battery drops from 12% to ~4% in matters of seconds.
When the phone is on charge at 96% it jumps to 99% and comes back to 97% and then again 99% and suddenly 100%. This was using the wall charger.
The main point which made me write this post was my idle drain. I sleep with my phone 100% and wake up at 52%. My WiFi auto sync and GPS was on. No bluetooth or NFC.
I understand there is battery drain but 48% is not understandable.
Thanks in advance.

Hi
Since google play services is using the maximum battery, it's for sure that one of the app is the culprit. ( in the second screenshot, apps usage is 74% of the total battery used )
Uliwooly gave the best possible way to determine it.
Usually a normal phone restart could also help fix the problem.
For the abnormal battery % readings, check this thread
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Davidhye is correct. The screen at lower contrast is hardly readable. That's why I said the screen quality is extremely bad. Even at 00% contrast, it is hard to read in bright neon light. It only has good readibility with rather dim light. At 50%, I almost can't read the text at all. At 0-20%, I don't think anyone can read it.By contrast, without trying to promote iRi'ver at all, my H320 has 0 steps of contrast. At 0, the screen displays text?even sharper than my Dell LCD monitor. At 50%, the text is highly readible, because only the color looks worse. Brightness at 0% (yes ZERO %), the text is as readable as ZMP at 00% contrast....believe it or not.
Even funnier, at bright day light, iRi'ver at 0% contrast is still much more readible than ZMP at 00% contrast.
Never did I imagine the ZMP screen can be that bad. About the battery, I played at normal (no equalzr) at vol 7. I asked ZMP buyers from the same seller (we bought it from a classified in a local forum), and they all have the same problem. The battery life is only about 7-8 hours max from the claim of 5 hours by Creative. I played my H320 skipping all around my music folder like crazy for?2.5?hours today, and .... I'm so proud to say, it has not even down notch !!!. Geezzz what a difference.

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3rd time: I took it to service center and told compete issue about the discussion with apple persons too. They kept it for two days and simply said that we have to chat with Apple technicians then only we say something. They chatted with Apple technicians and suggested me to keep the machine as it is till the Apple people update the firmware… When I asked… How much time it will take…? They said, “Do not know”!
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After take from service center, one more thing is happening with my MBA if I put my finger in front of webcam brightness of display goes dim. I do not know, how the service center persons are dealing?
Thats 100% normal, thats auto-dim as it senses the light. All of them do that.
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Greetings all,
Ill get straight to the point..
ive bought the ipod touch 4g barely a month ago, and since then ive been experiencing the following battery issues..
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Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If the battery runtime on your MacBook Air is unexpectedly low, start with these troubleshooting tips:
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