Battery drain is excessive

i am getting a big drain on my iphone5 battery and i need to find out what app or something that is causing this
i have air plane mode and bluetooth mode off and still i am getting a battery drain too fast and its at a point being to recharge 3x a day
i always keep it charged when i am home
and i have done turned off any notification that is not important
and still getting a drain
i need an app to install and determine what app is running in the background that is pulling the load and i like to find out so i can get to the root of the problem
thanks in advance

Rix70 wrote:
is this double tap and showing all the stuff i have swiping side ways ? is that meaning those things are active ? and this i did see but i did a swipe upward to make it disappear and i do not know making it turn off the individual app swiping up ways and i hope its not like a history or recent app
This exposes the multi-tasking list as I explained. This means this things have been used lately, and are in a suspended state. Most applications do not actually run in the background, they can just be easily accessed there. Swiping upwards as I said will force closed the app, and it doesn't matter what it does. You just need to try and find out what process is stuck and causing your battery drain.

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Hey this is Brian, bjmcmurry, under a different user ID. If I logged in as bmcmurry, original post, I was just getting a server error and couldn't get to this discussion nor post a comment anywhere.
Anyway, let me be as brief as I can. After an extensive analysis of replicating the problem on another phone to eliminate it being a hardware specific issue and that the test phone has an unlimited data plan, I was able to stop the excessive data usage and consequential battery drain. I believe I have a reasonable explanation of the problem, an iOS logic bug.
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