Re: This is bull****....Why is my battery running out so fast?
Try installing
Wake Lock Detector, which can tell you if any apps are inappropriately waking your device up many times to do useless things--this can eat up battery. Using that app on my Razr Maxx, I found that Google Maps was waking the phone up many many times during the day. Traced it to Location Reporting under the Google Maps settings--once I turned it off, the frequent wakelocks disappeared, and my battery life improved.
Another option is to use
GSAM Battery Monitor or
BetterBatteryStats to give you a more detailed breakdown of what apps are using how much battery. I don't have direct experience with these apps, but a lot of people swear by them.
Other things you can do:
1. Turn off automatic sync if it's something you don't absolutely need. I think the switch is buried in Settings/Accounts, but you can make it more easily accessible using
Power Toggles or
Widgetsoid.
2. If you'd rather keep auto sync on, then you can go to individual apps and modify how often they automatically refresh (or change it to manual refresh). For example, you can set Facebook to manually refresh only, so that it won't be accessing the web every hour or 30 minutes or whatever you have it set to.
3. Keep in mind that widgets also use up a little more battery, especially the ones that constantly update like weather widgets.
4. Does the battery drain persist after rebooting? Sometimes an app just goes rogue and eats up battery, which goes back to normal after a reboot.
5. Google Currents is notorious for battery drain. If you use it, change its updating to manual. If you don't, disable it.