Moto Droid eats battery when off

[frizfrelengfan]

My Motorola Droid is a battery eater. I expected this when the phone was on, but it also is when powered off (I mean POWERED OFF by holding the power key and selecting Power Off, not just put in Standby or Airplane Mode). I turned it off with a fully charged battery and put it away for the night. Eight hours later, I turned it on and the battery was at 60%. The only way I can prevent this from happening is by removing the battery. The battery use indicator doesn't help much.

I was wondering whether this is a known Droid problem. I got the phone used from Verizon Wireless after I lost my other phone, which was an HTC Eris. The Eris ate battery when on but not when shut down. If this problem is specific to my phone I need to talk to Verizon about it.

[Wuzzum]

Maybe you just have a bad battery? My milestone (same as a droid) has no such problems.

[frizfrelengfan]

Wuzzum,

When the battery is removed it doesn't deplete, so I don't think it's a bad battery.

Actually, the battery life seems to have improved a bit since I've been using it a while. I've heard that that can happen.

I've got a rooted ROM in the phone now, so maybe things will change.