The steps you describe are mandatory for my phone. I charge it every night (6 to 8 hours), go to work at 6am.. around 3pm it's almost empty (20% maybe) so I plug it in again, go home and in the evening it's 50% full... when it's doing nothing that night and I don't charge it, it's empty when I wake up. It's very harse that if I forget to charge it one night... it's completly dead.

Most of the applications are removed now... but it's draining the battery like a mad man.

So do you think the battery is dead or the battery is to empty to let the phone charge the battery? If last, I could use an external charger (if it exists) so I won't have to go back to the store every time I forget to charge it.