No luck with the sim removed. All the contacts looked fine.

I mentioned earlier that it stays warm and drains the battery when powered off (either via gui or by holding the power button for ~10secs).
It seem to be in a lame sleep mode since when I power it on, it sometimes boot up in a couple secs skipping the hands startup screen.

If I yank the battery and put it back in, it stays off. But once I turn it on, it (the charger/power supply) seems to latch on and suck juice.



I'm leaning toward a "hardware" issue a this point.


Other than the high discharge rate when off the charger the phone works flawlessly, just have too leave it plugged in all the time. argh.