The battery was about 10 months old. I initially thought it was the battery as well, bad cell or something, so I exchanged it about a week ago. So it has a brand new fresh HD battery.

 

Like Laramie said most of us have had strange and dangerous issues with the stock radio. I got rid of mine a few months back due to it shorting out internally. I didn't want to be woken up one night to my truck being on fire so i put in an aftermarket deck and no more problems. It is just one more thing that our trucks suffer from due to poor engineering.

 

I ripped the stock deck out the day I got my truck.
The CD player in it didn't work, and I had a radio I pulled from my dad's old car.
Also, the CD player was a plain CD player and only supported CD audio disks, I have a thing for MP3 disks- just something about getting ~130 songs on one CD that I find useful... That and my new deck is a JVC with the J-Link connector for aux inputs- currently using that for my bluetooth and my cell phone as an MP3 player.

Umm.. anyway.. the stock deck sucks- on pretty much any vehicle

 

Well I got everything wired up to the harness and installed today, everything went off without a hitch. Hopefully that will resolve the issue. The Pioneer deck I put in supports MP3s and has the AUX port on the front so I can plug in my MP3 player. It also looks much more clean than the stock unit. I just need to brace it in a little bit better.