This battery drain is just not worth keeping the phone

[quickstang]

I did a soft reset on my phone, it showed 31% I had the screen on, looking at some settings, and 5min later it is at 24%

So I just lost 7% in 5min?

SMS Sent: 0
Calls Made: 0
Internet Used: 0
Programs running: 0

I was at work playing with a Hero and posting on here, and doing other things on the net, and the battery meter barely moved. I looked at my TP2 after about 5 or 6 SMS, and drain away it was.

Can this actually be a battery/phone problem?

Should I hard reset, load NOTHING, and then track the battery and see how it performs with nothing loaded?

I'm running out of ideas here. Thought it was a certain program, but it is not.

I don't have any type of Sprint plan on it, only the Square Trade warranty.

Oh, and I forgot to mention I even plugged the thing in at work today for like 10min.

I made a 5min phone call today. Sent about 15 text, and surfed the net a bit. Stopped, cause the battery was going down drastically.

Now i'm at 24% as I keep typing this. I have a battery program running and it shows 232ma and 3.691v

When I loaded that program it spiked to 307ma

It seems to go from 140ma or so to the 244ma range back and forth. Again, nothing is running besides that program so I can see what it is doing.

Do I have any options here, or am I screwed? As in do I have to get another type of phone? Some things I dont like about the Hero, but I can say i've been impressed by the battery life.

I COULD try another ROM with good battery life. I've even had poor life with 6.1 as well before I flashed to 6.5

So it is NOT just a 6.5 issue.

Thanks for the help guys and gals.

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