Illegal angle situation without multiple angles

I have a project that worked fine last time I opened it (a few months ago). No multiple angles. It does have subtitles. Upon opening today when I simulate I get this error when clicking to open several of the video sequences: "Illegal angle situation. Only the main video angle will be simulated." Absolutely the only thing I've changed is I had to relink to some of the assets that I'd moved onto an external drive for archiving. My video tracks have stories, chapter markers, etc. so I really don't want to delete them and recreate. Any help?
PowerMac Dual G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Are you using encoded media or .mov source files? Have you tried locating and removing the PAR files that DVDSP creates when you import footage?
Are you using compatible audio files?
Any information about all of these things will help narrow it down a bit, if Drew13's suggestion doesn't help.

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"Illegal angle situation. Only the Main Video Angle will be simulated."

Hi y'all!
Trying to export my .mov out of DVD Studio pro and getting the message 'Illegal angle situation. Only the Main Video Angle will be simulated.' when I try to simulate. There's no video in the V2 track so guessing I need to fix up the GOP or angles, but I don't know where or what to change them to.
Project is an hour long, NTSC, 16:9, 29.97fps

Check your preferences for Track - check the Fix Invalid Markers on Build box. Should do the trick, though you may need to quit DVD SP and reopen to make sure the changes to preferences "stuck." It sounds like you are using only one video track and do not have multiple angles (video), audio or other extras, just a straight m2v and audio track. There are some other things that can cause the issue, like using VBR when using multiple video tracks. But see if this takes care of it.

Simulation error: "Warning - Illegal angle situation"

Hi there,
I've just produced a three camera edit in FCP and I'm now trying to cut to DVD in Studio Pro.
I keep getting hit with the same message when trying "simulator". I have 13 chapters..all of which come up with this error when I try to skip to them.
"Warning: Illegal angle situation. Only the Main Video Angle will be simulated".
I've gone back into FCP and deleted all references to the "angles". I've exported onto tape and then recaptured..put back on the timeline and exported again..reimported into DVD Studio and it still appears.
I'm running out of ideas. Can anyone please help me?
Thanks in advance.
Carol Ann

Hi there,
Thanks for all your efforts here guys.
I'd say the "angle" issue is resolved...but now when I import the asset into DVD SP and try to put on timeline I'm getting the following error...
"Or or more clips could not be added to stream.
Incompatible GOP Structure. Last Valid Time Code at 00:00:00:00
I have exported using compressor and opted for MPEG2 option. I chose CBR one pass and ensured GOP was set to "closed". I thought if it was "closed" then it wouldn't look for that in DVD Studio but it still seems to. I'm trying just about every setting in compressor that I can find and basically I'm going nuts trying ot work it out.
Please don't give up on me
Carol Ann

Advanced mixed-angle "illegal angle situation"...stumped!!

First off, I would like to thank in advance anyone who takes the time to read my detailed post and tries to help. I have read the posts on this topic before, but I have not been able to solve my problem.
In detail:
I am doing a project for a client, and part of this project involves a mixed-angle track. We shot several different camera angles of his car (two from within the car, one stable tripod shot as the car passed the camera coming towards you, one stable shot as the car passed driving away from you). There were four different angles shot, and one combined FCP shot showing all four simultaneously for a total of 5)
Step one-the angles:
Angle 1 (V1): From 01:00:00:00 to 01:01:02:22 (A FCP edited shot with all the clips sized down to about 40% of original size so all angles are visible simultaneously.)
Angle 2 (V2): From 01:00:00:00 to 01:01:02:22 (A shot of taken from the sunroof view of the car as it drives. This shot is the only one with the same length as Angle0)
Angle 3 (V3) From 01:00:03:01 to 01:00:51:25 (A shot taken from the passenger side as the car drives with the rear view mirror slightly in shot. As you see, this shot does NOT run the length of V1 or V2)
Angle 4 (V4) From 01:00:11:11 to 01:00:28:28 (A tripod shot taken from a specific spot on the road with "its back" to the car as it comes towards the camera, so the view is of the car as it is driving away)
Angle 5 (V5) From 01:00:27:17 to 01:00:50:22 (Another tripod still video shot taken from a different spot on the road facing the car as it comes towards the camera, so that the view of the car is an approaching view, and the car passes the camera.
Audio is a combined sound of all four events as they occur mixed togther to form one Dolby 2.0 ac3 stream at 192kbs.
All of these shots are synched up as they happened in real time, and in looking at the various FCP timecodes, you can see that the different video angles "weave" in and out of one another.
Some various markers were placed on the footage in synching it up (NOT chapter markers for this purpose..only timing) and those were left in the individual clips.
Step two-once the video was synched, a separate FCP sequence was created for each angle to be encoded for use in DVDSP4. I then placed Chapter markers-precisely accurate to the frame where EACH video event intersected another. (Example: Angle starts at 01:00:03:01 so I put chapter markers at this precise point on angle 1 and 2 as well) Chapter markers were placed on any and all intersections of beginnings or ends of the angles that weaved in and out of other angles. This was done so the GOP's would match for later transcoding.
Step three-transcoding with Compressor.
Exact setttings for first run..
Video-(apple preset) DVD: Best Quality 120 minutes - 4:3. The ONLY change made to the audio or video preset was checking the INCLUDE CHAPTER MARKERS ONLY box in the extras portion of the video encoders for all tracks so the encoding would ignore all markers but my chapter placements.
Audio-Dolby 2.0 preset within the blanket apple preset mentioned above.
Step four-Entry into DVDSP track for trial run.
Exact steps:
Dropped angle 1 into V1
Dropped angles 2-5 into V2-V5 in accordance to the chapter markers governing where these angles should be "sandwiched." No problems here...no error messages. Flawless. Everything going well to this point.
Step 5-Ctrl, Simulate Track...and...here it comes...
"Warning-Illegal angle situation. Only the main video angle will be simulated."
Step 6-Went to Apple Discussion boards. Saw the various posts regarding the maximum bit rate being lower than 7 just to be on the safe side, and VBR turned off to be absolutely safe.
Step 7-Re-transcode all video angles with one pass, non VBR, "include chapter markers only" checked, and max bit rate of 6.5-same audio file as orginal attempt. Dropped video angles again into the respective timing containers in DVDSP. Once again, we get "Warning-illegal angle situation. Only the main video angle will be simulated."
I am stumped. I have tried to describe my process up to this point as precisely as possible and am also on a strict deadline. The mixed-angle feature was a big selling feature for us to this client. I know and hope the answer to this issue is something simple.
Again, thank you in advance! These message boards have always been a great help because of the generosity of those in the Mac family!!
PowerMac Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2.5 Ghz Dual G5, 1GB Ram, 250GB, 400GB internal hard drives

Thank you all for your responses. Here are my several confusions, however.
As long as the GOP's line up, I was under the impression that a MIXED, (not a MULTI) angle project does NOT have to have clips of the same length. Or at least this is what I read in the Ramseier/Sitter Certified training book on DVDSP. This is pulled right from the book:
"About Alternate Angles
DVDSP lets you create two different types of alternate angle tracks:
Multi-angle tracks, in which each angle is exactly the same length as the main video stream.
Mixed-angle tracks, which include alternate video streams that are shorter in duration than the main video stream. Where there's a space in the mixed-angle stream, DVD players revert to the main video stream, which they play until the mixed angle appears again. Mixed angles save disc space for alternate angle streams that do not need to run the length of the entire track. Technically, all angles in the mixed-angle tracks must be sandwiched by markers-one marker at the front, and one marker at the back."
The frustration of this is that I have been successful with Multi-angle tracks. Because I am working with a DVD-5, I cannot afford the space to have ALL these angles run the length of the entire mixed angle clip that I mentioned above. Chapter markers were placed at all intersecting points to the frame, and "include chapter markers only" was checked so that the GOP's would line up precisely with one another.
The only thing I have not tried is compressing at the lowest possible CBR I can while trying to maintain the quality of this footage with minimal motion artifacts. As I said, this is footage of several angles of a car accelerating to the speed of 85mph...so I am also limited to how low I can compress because I will get nothing but blur after awhile. I will try to recompress with the lowest possible CBR as suggested.
This is such a small part in the perspective of the overall whole of this project for my client, but it is extremely important. Again, I appreciate all support and free-time you all have given, and any additional detailed suggestions are desperately welcomed!
Peace
PowerMac Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2.5 Ghz Dual G5, 1GB Ram, 250GB, 400GB internal hard drives
PowerMac Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2.5 Ghz Dual G5, 1GB Ram, 250GB, 400GB internal hard drives

Illegal angle situation

Searched through and found one topic on this but it didn't seem to provide a solution to my issue.
Basic stuff. Making a 4:3 SD DVD with one button to play the movie. the movie properties are "MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass.m2v". I'm taking a button from buttons palette, linking it to the movie and when I run "Simulate" and click on the button i get the "Warning. Illegal angle situation. Only the main video angle will be simulated." Every time I click the button I get this.
Been using DVD Studio Pro since the beginning and I've never seen this warning before. Any ideas? there was a fix in another thread (deleting then relinking the movie), but it didn't help.
OS 10.6.4
2 x 3.2 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
12 GB memory
Thanks,
ROB

Got another question for you. Have you seen my baseball?
Got it, Shawn. Things work fine now. That was a real rookie mistake on my part. Thanks!

"illegal angle situation" on single angle project

i'm trying to build and burn a DVD made from a TV broadcast, which only has a single angle. when i view it in the inspector i get the warning "illegal angle situation", and when i try to build i get a "track 1: missing marker for angle situation" error.
unless i have done something by accident there should only be one angle. i have only one track, though the track is made up of two mpeg files, one immediately after the other (different tv programmes).
please could someone let me know how i can fix this problem ? i'm resisting starting over again because i spent a couple of hours inserting chapter markers. (as far as i know there is no way to export these markers from Studio Pro ...)
any help or advice much appreciated. thanks !
mark

alex
thanks very much for your response - after magnifying the timeline i discovered a short clip on the V2 track at the same point i joined two assets on V1 - it must have gotten there by accident and i couldn't see it on the normal view of the track editor. now it's been deleted all seems well.
many thanks,
mark

Illegal angle problem

I'm composing a DVD without a menu as I want it to play the audio and video right as the user inserts the disc. The simulation looked great. But when I hit the Burn button I got a warning telling me there was an "Illegal Angle Situation, only the main video angle will be simulated". To be honest this is the first I've ever seen this. I've looked through the new FCP Studio 2 documentation and have yet to find anything referring to an illegal video angle for anything. If anyone has any ideas about the solution to this I'd appreciate the help. Thanks a ton in advance!

What I did was export the footage edited in FCP6 to Compressor. When Compressor launched I chose the settings for DVD-Best Quality-90 minutes as this whole video won't last more than 10 minutes, tops. When the encoding was complete I launched DVD Studio Pro, created a new project, dragged the two files (Dolby Digital, MPEG-2) to the tracks folder in the Outline window. As I wanted to have this DVD play as soon as it's inserted I used the instructions for that found here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93812
I simulated the DVD and everything looked great. Then when I tried to burn the DVD the whole thing went heathen. As this is my first DVD project using FCP Studio 2 I'm sure it's probably something simple. But again, any help you render is greatly appreciated. So thank you very much, Hal!
Lance

Illeagal Angle situation during simulation

I have a project that has 1 main track and 2 angles to go with it. In my main menu I have 3 buttons that have a script that sets the angle its going to play. Whenever I simualte this I get a error saying "illegal angle situation only the main track will be played" When I hit OK it starts playing and it plays the correct angle I just selected, so what gives?

First thing to check (or one of the first) is how you encoded. CBR is recommended for this to avoid illegal angle error messages. Does this do this during an actual build or just the simulator?

Illegal angle problem as I insert an Aiff file...?

I inserted an Aiff audio file but when I click on the button to play it, an error message appears "illegal angle situation. Only the main angle will be simulated."
OK.
On pressing OK, nothing happens.
Does DVDSP not like Aiffs?

Also, - I just converted it to an AC3 using Compressor and get the same error message. So it looks like its not an aiff issue as such?
The issue is, I think, the fact that I am inserting an audio file only with no associated video stream. I just want to play the audio with a blank screen.
V1 is empty.
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"Illegal angle situation. Only the Main Video Angle will be simulated."
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I asked this question because I'm making a slide presentation and i don't see any information on this issue when you're making a slide show. I hope someone can help me.

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For example, in the list of artist I have "Missy Elliot" but on several songs
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iBook Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Thanks for your answer peeble. I thought so to, but I had to ask. But it is little bit annoying. It would have been nice if you could put some info within brackets for example without creating new posts. I might send an mail to Steve.
iBook

Warning Illegal Angle - Back to iDVD

Just upgraded from FCP3 to Studio 2 and tried to use DVD Studio Pro for the first time this morning and failed miserably. I created a 52 minute video yesterday in FCP then exported to Compressor. It was a simple video with NO audio (soccer scrimmage). Aside from the fact that both FCP and Compressor don't seem too stable (Activity Monitor showed some of their processes as not responding during the whole process), everything seemed to work OK. However, when trying to build a DVD with DVD Studio Pro, I kept getting the "Warning: Illegal Angle..." message when testing via simulation.
I finally gave up and went back to iDVD which worked fine. Are the studio tools so unstable as to be not usable for such simple tasks?
Granted - I know I have a whole new learning curve to climb, but my initial experience has been very frustrating. Any suggestions on solving the "illegal angle" problem? Is it an FCP, Compressor or DVD Studio app problem?

I finally gave up and went back to iDVD which worked fine. Are the studio tools so unstable as to be not usable for such simple tasks?
I've been using DVDSP for many years, since v1. I don't have any odd problems with the software; nothing that is not clearly a user error.
I've never seen "illegal angle" in the errors I've gotten but I'd strongly urge you to try DVDSP with a far more conventional project so you can learn how it works. Earlier versions came with some interesting and very helpful tutorials but I haven't bothered to even look for them for many ears. They may no longer be included.
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Live Capture of Multiple Angles

Hi, a bunch of us students are attempting to produce a "live" TV show. Basically, we'll be at a live music festival, and we want to be interviewing bands backstage and air it within 30 minutes or so. This is very similar to what the BBC did with Glastonbury 2 years ago.
Here's what we plan to do: We've got 2 DV cameras at our disposal, with additional boom microphones attached, and we want to record directly into Final Cut Pro (camera mode). I know that it's entirely possible with one camera, but how would you do it with 2 cameras?
The reason we're resorting to such measures is because
1) we don't have a timecode generator
2) it needs to go out "live" very soon, and we can't afford to run the tapes via DV decks
I've looked through the manual and the forums, but I can't seem to find any information about recording multiple live feeds. We'd be connecting the cameras with FireWire.
Any advice is most welcome. Thanks!
MacBook Pro, Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.9) Final Cut Pro, 2 DV cameras (unsure of the model number, but one's a Canon)

Pricey but <http://www.pictureready.com/> gives you the ability to edit with a quicktime movie whilst it is being recorded. This is the only way I know to acheive what you want with FinalCutPro (ie. a 30 min turnaround with multiple angles). (This is what Peter Wiggins uses on Tour De France edit in the UK.)
It would mean that you would really need n+1 workstations, where n is the number of cameras you wish to ingest. The +1 is to enable you to edit whilst digitising. You should be able to link them via gig-ethernet if the codec is DV25. Allegedly gig-e will work up to DVCProHD for a couple of streams (i.e. you wouldn't need an x-san). Not sure if it records a firewire feed though.
Avid Unity has a similar feature called 'media chunking' where you can access clips whilst they are being recorded, but the last time I used that it was not as clever as pictureready. Oh and Unity is REALLY expensive
For broadcast quick turnaround shows we often still use linear edit controllers editing direct to tape, controlling disk recorders such as EVS that give us non-linear access to all recorded cameras as soon as they are recorded. I believe on the Tour De France they use a linear room to control a quicktime movie that is being recorded with PictureReady.
Not sure that is much help, unless you can get manufacturers to loan you equipment! Good Luck.
Regards
Trevor
DP 2.7 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

IPhone 4S Battery Life: Best solutions and procedures for 1st time user: 1-Do you have a battery life issue (learn first what the usage time spec is about) 2-What can you try to remedy the situation without reading 500 pages of posts

What follows is a grouping of some of the most fruitful procedures - from what I've seen in the biggest battery life issue thread - and some background information and discussion for solving or improving the battery life with the iPhone 4S and may be applicable also to devices on which iOS 5.0/5.0.1 has been applied. Credit goes to the respective users who contributed this information to the forum and they should be commended for doing so. This is not a final listing. The goal here is to provide a first stop sort of knowledge base document for newcomers instead of having them perusing the never ending threads where the wheel is reinvented on every page...
Please don't post your questions, usage screenshots, or claims that it worked or not for you or anything here except PROCEDURES/DEBUG STEPS/SOLUTIONS or improvements to the procedures already listed here. Try to use point form and to be as concise and clear as possible. Hope all this helps.
Thank you and good luck!
General info and specs
First, take a look Apple's battery tips, info and specs(obligatory reading for all Iphone 4S users - read it once and for all):
http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html
http://www.apple.com/batteries/
... you didn't read it? loll Always remember this i.e. the definition of "usage":
Usage: Amount of time iPhone has been awake and in use since the last full charge. The phone is awake when you’re on a call, using email, listening to music, browsing the web, or sending and receiving text messages, or during certain background tasks such as auto-checking email.
I'm still not convinced you read the links so here's what Apple has to say in terms of fine tuning your battery life:
Optimize your settings
Depending on how they are configured, a few features may decrease your iPhone battery life. For example, the frequency with which you retrieve email and the number of email accounts you auto-check can both affect battery life. The tips below apply to an iPhone running iOS 5.0 or later and may help extend your battery life.
Minimize use of location services: Applications that actively use location services such as Maps may reduce battery life. To disable location services, go to Settings > General > Location Services or use location services only when needed.
Turn off push notifications: Some applications from the App Store use the Apple Push Notification service to alert you of new data. Applications that extensively rely on push notifications (such as instant messaging applications) may impact battery life. To disable push notifications, go to Settings > Notifications and set Notifications to Off. Note that this does not prevent new data from being received when the application is opened. Also, the Notifications setting will not be visible if you do not have any applications installed that support push notifications.
Fetch new data less frequently: Applications such as Mail can be set to fetch data wirelessly at specific intervals. The more frequently email or other data is fetched, the quicker your battery may drain. To fetch new data manually, from the Home screen choose Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and tap Manually. To increase the fetch interval, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and tap Hourly. Note that this is a global setting and applies to all applications that do not support push services.
Turn off push mail: If you have a push mail account such as Yahoo! or Microsoft Exchange, turn off push when you don’t need it. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and set Push to Off. Messages sent to your push email accounts will now be received on your phone based on the global Fetch setting rather than as they arrive.
Auto-check fewer email accounts: You can save power by checking fewer email accounts. This can be accomplished by turning off an email account or by deleting it. To turn off an account, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, choose an email account, and set Account to Off. To remove an account, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, choose an email account, and tap Delete Account.
Turn off Wi-Fi: If you rarely use Wi-Fi, you can turn it off to save power. Go to Settings > Wi-Fi and set Wi-Fi to Off. Note that if you frequently use your iPhone to browse the web, battery life may be improved by using Wi-Fi instead of cellular data networks.
Turn off Bluetooth: If you rarely use a Bluetooth headset or car kit, you can turn off Bluetooth to save power. Go to Settings > General > Bluetooth and set Bluetooth to Off.
Use Airplane Mode in low- or no-coverage areas: Because your iPhone always tries to maintain a connection with the cellular network, it may use more power in low- or no-coverage areas. Turning on Airplane Mode can increase battery life in these situations; however, you will be unable to make or receive calls. To turn on Airplane Mode, go to Settings and set Airplane Mode to On.
Adjust brightness: Dimming the screen is another way to extend battery life. Go to Settings > Brightness and drag the slider to the left to lower the default screen brightness. In addition, turning on Auto-Brightness allows the screen to adjust its brightness based on current lighting conditions. Go to Settings > Brightness and set Auto-Brightness to On.
Turn off EQ: Applying an equalizer setting to song playback on your iPhone can decrease battery life. To turn EQ off, go to Settings > iPod > EQ and tap Off. Note that if you’ve added EQ to songs directly in iTunes, you’ll need to set EQ on iPhone to Flat in order to have the same effect as Off because iPhone keeps your iTunes settings intact. Go to Settings > iPod > EQ and tap Flat.
Usage specs for the 4S - http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html:
Talk time: Up to 8 hours (12.5% per hour drain) on 3G, up to 14 hours (7.1% per hour drain) on 2G (GSM)
Standby time: Up to 200 hours (0.5% per hour drain)
Internet use: Up to 6 hours on 3G (16.6% per hour drain), up to 9 hours (11.1% per hour drain) on Wi-Fi
Video playback: Up to 10 hours (10% per hour drain)
Audio playback: Up to 40 hours (2.5% per hour drain)
So a scenario of normal usage could be for example: 4 heavy hours of 3G internet browsing (66.4%), with one hour of call on 3G (12.5%) and 22 hours of standby (11%) = 100%
A battery life issue is a problem where the drain is really out of spec either during usage or standby or both. For example, multi-% per minute drain during usage or a 10% drain per hour during standby is problematic. Browsing the internet on 3G during one hour and losing 16-17% is not.
Apple's test methodology for claiming the specs:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/battery.html
Procedures
davidch tips (reset+full discharge recharge):
Go through these steps to address the battery after updating to iOS 5.0.1:
1. Reset all settings (settings app-> general-> reset)
2. Go through initial setup steps (lang, wifi, siri, enable location, etc) and choose setup as new phone (don't worry your apps, data, contacts, mail will still be there). Do NOT restore from iCloud or iTunes (It can copy back corrupt settings)
3. Turn off system location services timezone and iAd
4. Fully discharge battery (tilll it shuts off with the spinning wheel)
5. Fully recharge battery (overnight if possible)
In my experience this improves the Standby battery drain issue significantly in most cases. It reduces drain from 2-4% or more per hr to 0.5% or less. It has worked for many, many users now. If it does not work after a few try's you may have a real battery or hardware issue and should contact Apple. Good Luck!
ram130's variant of davidch i.e. additional steps:
Now using davidch original steps and attaching the tweaks I made to get me more usage. As shown on page 29.
Go through these steps to address the battery after updating to iOS 5.0.1:
1. Reset all settings (settings app-> general-> reset)
2. Go through initial setup steps (lang, wifi, siri, enable location, etc) and choose setup as new phone (don't worry your apps, data, contacts, mail will still be there). Do NOT restore from iCloud or iTunes (It can copy back corrupt settings)
3. Turn off system location services timezone and iAd
4. Fully discharge battery (till it shuts off with the spinning wheel)
5. Fully recharge battery (overnight if possible)
6. Disable Siri 'Raise To Speak' and REBOOT *( if possible use another camera to verify the                 infrared is off after the reboot).
7. Set emails, icloud and calendars to fetch. ** test. Mines on hourly.
8. If your in a no signal and your phone is saying "Searching..." even after 10mins, reboot while in that area and after 1-2min it should say "No Service". This mainly applies to Verizon customers and improve battery life in these areas.
9. *optional* Goto Settings > General > Network and you will see "Hotspot.." loading something, wait a few seconds and it should say "setup personal hotspot" then exit out.
* I notice a great improvement after disabling this and rebooting. This increased my "screen on" usage or at least helped it. Make the change.
** I have not tested push yet to narrow down the drain but I had this change on my phone. I believe exchange push is responsible for some stand by drain. As for icloud, haven't notice much of a difference. Just try it for a day. My email still came in fast most times. Again still testing, will report back on these..
buxbuster tips(wifi sync, iCloud):
These are my own tested workarounds that worked for my iPhone 4S and seemed to have worked for others as well :
Workaround number 1. Deselect wifi-sync in iTunes and press sync.
If that doesn't work try :
Workaround number 2 : Remove iCloud, reset network settings. ( I guess this won't work for you since you don't have it enabled ).
If both workarounds fail, you can always try to completely wipe your phone. That also solved some of the cases out there.
rolandomerida tips - i.e. buxbuster and additional steps:
Finally, I solved the syncing error loop. My contacts are syncing flawessly again between my devices and iCloud, and yes, the battery stopped draining, which is the main topic here.
I followed instructions from buxbuster (check his workaround a few pages up!) and an additional BIG step to restore contacts and syncing, as seen in a MacRumors forum.
This is what I did:
1. Make a backup of your Address Book, using the vCard option (or both, it doesn't hurt). Save it for later.
2. In your iPhone, delete iCloud account. When it asks, accept both: delete AND delete from my iPhone.
3. Reset network settings. The iPhone will restart, then will ask you to unlock the SIM card.
4.Turn Wi-Fi on.
5. Add the iCloud account again.
That's for Buxbuster's workaround. For some, it might work just like that. My iPhone repopulated from iCloud after step 5, but I still had that "server error" on iCloud. I had to do some extra steps, since my Mac was not syncing to iCloud and couldn't edit anything on my Mac or iCloud. Syncing back had to be fixed, too. If not, the syncing loop would continue from my iPhone, and the battery would drain awfully again.
1. In System Preferences -> iCloud, I turned Contacts off. I chose "keep on My Mac" those contacts, but I got an empty Address Book after a while. And a few minutes later, iCloud contacts were empty and my iPhone also. It is scary at first! Now, before importing that vCard backup...
2. Turn Wi-Fi off. This is important, since your contact-empty iCloud will attempt to wipe your Address Book from your Mac in seconds after importing.
3. Import your vCard backup to Address Book. Just drag it to your blank Address Book window; it asks if you want to import "x" number of cards. Of course, say yes.
4. Turn Wi-Fi on, and then iCloud contacts on again (System Preferences -> iCloud). It will offer to merge your newly populated Address Book with iCloud (which is empty at this point). It should upload every single contact to iCloud, and then to your iDevices. If not, a fifth step would be to import the vCard file to iCloud, but it shouldn't be necessary.
So, with iCloud syncing working correctly, there is no battery draining! Again, that was my particular issue.
I can't tell if this is the single answer to the widely spread battery draining problem, but it sure can be fixed with these workarounds, and yes, Apple should address the problem with a future update, for we affected customers don't need workarounds in the first place
This is the MacRumors discussion:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1256807
And dont' forget to check buxbuster's fix, video, and THANK him!
Miless tips (full 800mb release of 5.0.1 and sanitizing a restore):
As for 4S battery life. Try doing this,
1. Settings>Location Service ... disable all location services you do not need. In particularly Facebook because it drains the battery a lot.
Scroll down to the bottom at Settings>Location services>System Services ... Disable Setting Time zone, location based iAds, Diagnostic & Usage.
2. Settings>Notification>Calendar ... turn off the Notification Centre.
3. Settings>General>Reset ... do Reset All Settings. Doing this will not wipe out your iPhone. It will just Reset the network settings, location warning, keyboard dictionary, etc... but it will clear up some corrupted data there. Generally this will help.
Try these 3 steps first... if it still drains a lot, try the following,
4. Drain your battery down to 1%. Then charge it up using USB from PC ... not the charger. The charger output 1.0 A ( x 5V from USB ... you get 5W power). From PC, output is only 0.5A x 5V = 2.5W power. Charging is slower but trickle charge 4S helps the battery retain its charge better. I think it takes about 3-3.5 hours to charge full from USB/PC compared to slightly below 2 hours using iPhone charger.
If after doing the above still could not solve your battery issues (mine with iOS 5.0 was ok up to step 4, but not iOS 5.0.1).... plug you iPhone to a charger (any charger), from iPhone, access your iCloud ... set it up if you havent. Back up your iPhone data to iCloud. if you do not have enough storage (only 5GB is free), go to details and select the apps you need its data backup, choose only those you really need and leave those unnecessary ones out. Back up your camera roll to your PC/Mac manually as it could be too big to backup to iCloud.... once you have it setup, make sure you are on Wifi ... tap backup to iCloud from your iPhone. It will take a while if the file is huge.
Once backup to iCloud is completed, plug your iPhone to PC/Mac and launch iTunes 10.5.1 (make sure you have 10.5.1)
Click Restore. It will automatically initiate a download of iOS 5.0.1 ipsw for iPhone 4S. Wait for the whole process to finish, ie. download, restore software/firmware.
Once its done, do not set up your iPhone from iTunes. Set it up on your iPhone. Go through the selection. When prompted, select restore from iCloud (from your iphone backup earlier). Keep your iphone plugged into iTunes while restoring backup from iCloud. Because while restoring from iClouds, some data will be synced from iTunes if you plug in, e.g. music, video, etc... unless you bought these content from iTunes store. Apps will be downloaded from App Store from the cloud.
Once it's all done restored. Turn off your iPhone,.. and turn it on again.
Now, hopefully your battery wont be draining so fast anymore. Usually it wont after this. But you need to charge your battery at least 4-5 cycles to stabilize the charge on the battery. I dont know why... but battery life seems to get better and better for me after a few charge cycles after all the above work.
Good luck. Let us know if it works for you.
W. Raider tips (Sirii):
Bottom line for me of things that helped battery life are:
1. Turing off Siri and Rebooting the phone by holding the Home button and Top button down, ignoring the slider, until the phone shut down. (turn off Siri, reboot, and check top front of iPhone 4S against a lesser camera like the front-facing camera on an iPad2 - making sure the IR sensor is off)
2. Fully draining the battery, meaning using the phone until it shuts itself off from a drained battery and then recharging it to 100% about 4, maybe 5 times. I charged it both with a Mac and a wall charger.
Hope this is helpful!
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jmm514 remarks (Twitter):
I may have found something. I had Twitter disabled in my notifications, but got a tweet today that popped up on my home screen. Didn't know I had this enabled. At the bottom of the Twitter notification settings is the home scrren toggle. Since disabling this, battery life seems better. Considering there is no setting for frequency of checking for tweets, it appears the phone is continually connecting to wifi to check for new tweets.
tmksnyder comments (notifications, corrupt data in iCloud):
For me, I found my iphone on wifi mysteriously connecting to my mac. I eventually narrowed it down to the Apple Move Trailers app which keeps a file in iCloud. The phone was trying to sync the file with the mac in the background even when the Movie Trailers app was closed (hitting the red x). Based on my macosx logs the iCloud process that was trying to sync was working directly between the phone and the mac without using itunes by connecting to an https address hosted on the phone. It was connecting every 3 minutes and failing (while phone was awake or awake during during a notification). I also found that iCloud control panel on OSX would error if I tried to delete the file. I fixed it by removing the App and doing a hard reset which stopped the sync. I probably could have turned off iCloud document sync in the phone but didn't think of that. My battery life has greatly improved while at home on wifi.    I am now at 28 hrs standby, 2 hrs 20 minutes of usage, and 68% battery. It was ok before where I could get 20-30 hrs standby and 6 -8 hrs usage. My usage today was phone calls, 3g surfing, and music via bluetooth in the car.
I also found even with Itunes iMatch, if I mass updated tages, art work etc, it would hit the phone on wifi even in standby. I was amazed.   Granted if I am not doing updates, Match won't hot the phone so this was a once in awhile event. I could drop my percentage by 5-10% in a matter of minutes when doing updates.   I think a lot of our problems are background processes, associated with iCloud, notification, and apps. More features means more battery.   I think the key thing is to keep track of what has recently been added or changed if battery life gets worse all of a sudden.   It may be an app that was recently installed and if possible you may want to completely remove it and not just quit it.
With twitter, i think it uses push notifications so it doesn't need to be running and actively poll on the phone. For instance , if i quit the mail app, i still will get mail notifications and can swipe the message and load mail. Apple Push Notifications servics maintain the connection to the phone and there are likely pings or connection checks that occur for the service on an os level not an app level. This minimizes the load so there arent a bunch of apps all runing and constantly checking. The notification service , if it is contacted from twitter or another service with data, will check the settings you have registered to the with the apple push service and send the notification to your phone. No matter what, there is a drain with notifications. M hunch is once one application is configured to receive notifications, connection checking occurs betwen the push service and the phone so it knows where it is on the network. If it is implemented correctly, these checks arent frequent if you are still and more frequent as you move. The other drain is for when the noification hits and is processsed. If i get 9 emails over night, my screen just popped up for 20 seconds or so to process each message using battery. I would even think that just go from low power to turning n the screen uses more juice than if the device was already on and i get the message. On nights I get no notifications, I see a 3 or 4 percent drop. On nights with a number of notifications, i have seen up to a 10 percent drop. Besides notifications, wifi sync and icloud will poll on the local network and use up battery if the host computer is on and running itunes or trying to sync a data file that is corrupt (which i had with the apple movie trailers app causing my phone to drain). For me turning off wifi sync and remving a corrupt file in icloud solved my battery issues and I get over 24 hrs of standby with 6 to 9 hrs of use and this is with all the normal location services and push serivices turned on.
See http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/ipad/#documentation/NetworkingInternet/Co nceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/ApplePushService/ApplePushService.html for more info. I think it has a good overview of how the notifications work.

Well seems like that rumor of iOS 5.0.1 is finally gone the way of the dogs since developers got a beta of 5.1. So as stated earlier in the master discussion-> I suspect if you are filling up this thread with false post or creating a master set of links to various post that are unreliable you are wasting your time. Press is not going to touch the story due to poor or inaccurate sources which may be links from the master thread. This can include inaccurate information, combination of conflicting post or postings from users which may not own the device. Reputable press organizations have policies that require discloser and strict rules about what is a reliable source for a story. It is clear that many of the post in the master thread, which are links presented here are questionable.
Sorry to say that postings taken without any analysis of their totality have been propagated via various sites, for example sites such as http://www.2012federalbudget(dot)com. (Do not visit but I suspect that this is not the 2012 federal-budget site you would expect based on analysis of the records. There are plenty of sites like http://www.2012federalbudget(dot)com propagating questionable post in these threads.) One site for example in the discussion thread used a self signed certificate, the site had a log in to allow users to enter their OpenID. Seems many of these sites are pop and drop drupel configurations.
So remember this is how the really bad rumor of iOS 5.0.2 got started, the 5.1 memory leak issue, iCloud Issues, call quality, address book, etc.
Some of the postings have been very comical, I think the latest now is a dropbox issue. Seems that the length of the previous thread has resulted in various app engines of some proxy servers/tools reaching their limits.
So I would make sure to know the source of any information you link to. Make sure you avoid entering any information to outside links such as OpenID or Apple ID, these are big prize items for anyone with malicious intent. If you have issues and are a valid user contact APPLE CARE. (Note link is using McAfee Secure Short URL Service, and is https.)
http://mcaf.ee/ricdt
The original solution still represents a high level of success for users having any battery issues.
Install 5.0.1 on your iPhone 4s. Some users posting they are still using older versions, bad fake serial numbers, etc.
Make sure your device can run iOS 5.0.1 and is not altered.
Make sure you use a new Sim, not some cut down version which many users admit to doing. (Again, worth confirming what people are posting.)
Reset the device doing a hard reset and software reset.
Let battery drain and then charge for the full cycle, which is 24 hours.
I think you will find you will get the battery usage that APPLE has stated for the device.
Best of luck, stay safe and thanks

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