Please Help! Terrible Drain!

SFGiants 2010

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New Nexus user here! Charged my phone fully before bed last (WITH extended battery) and woke up 6 hours later with 50% battery!

Here is my battery chart:

Android OS 59%
Screen 20%
Phone Idle 11%
Cell Standby 7%

Installed Apps:

Facebook (update every 4 hours)
Seesmic (Update every 4 hours)
Swiftkey X
Beautiful Widgets
Chrome Beta
Go SMS
Chrome to Phone

My corporate email is set to push
Weather widget updates only when I open and refresh

Im so lost!

Help!
 
One of the apps is keeping your phone awake. You will need to find the app that is causing the extended wake time.
 
Are you running a custom ROM/Kernel? You can also download Watchdog from the marketplace and it will tell you which apps are "misbehaving."
 
When I first activated my phone I was getting maybe 5 to 6 hours on a charge with light use. I disabled NFC and forced it CDMA-only mode. After a few more charge cycles I got 13 hours and 29 minutes since unplugged with 2:02 hours of screen time and 1:23 hours of talk time with the stock battery. My android OS is still higher than it should be, but my battery is is getting me through the work day finally. I hope this helps.
 
I started having the same issue just last night. I noticed the phone reset in the middle of the night at random. Sometime in the same period, this thing has started hemorrhaging energy. Have had the phone since it's release, and occasionally the battery gets a little wonky, but today it has been noticeably hungrier.

Haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet. Tried powering on and off several times, but that hasn't changed anything, although the battery went from 19% to about 40% during one power cycle (about 2 minutes), so I'm thinking the battery is ok but the meter may be out of whack.

The only app I have in common with you is Facebook (30 minute updates), but I don't think that has changed recently (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

There were numerous app updates last night. Now I wish I'd paid attention. I know Elixir 2 was updated, and I think Woot Watcher. Anyone know how to get to your notification log.

I'm running stock, btw. 4.0.2 Not rooted or unlocked.
 
Try an app like "BetterBatteryStats" that'll give you a very granular look at what's keeping the phone awake.

It'd be very helpful if you posted the actual screenshots of your battery use / screen on / awake time so we can diagnose better.
 
I solved it by plugging it in when im around a charger. Plug it every night there is no need not to plug it night. At your desk or in car plug it in. There is no need to try for 30 hours of life. Average battery use is rated at 6-8 hours. Follow these steps and your phone will b happy

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Found it!

It was my corporate email! Changed it to update manually when I open the app rather than Push, now after a full night after fully charged I wake up to 91%

Thank you to everyone who replied and tried to help!
 

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