IOS 7.1 Battery Life Fix

I updated my iPhone 4S to iOS 7.1 and after a couple of weeks decided that the battery was draining faster than it used to. Not some of the super fast 50% in an hour kind of drain, but I was not getting a full day out of it.
I did everything I could think of and tried all the fixes I found in these discussions with one exception that I will get to shortly. I did resets, I shut down everything running in the background, I did full battery charge cycles, I shut of any Location Service that I didn't need, I set my email to manually fetch, etc. etc.
I was still seeing a fairly rapid drain on my battery. So I decided to do a Reset All Settings reset and this seems to have helped. I held off on this because it is annoying to have to go back in and reset all the settings I had already tweaked but it seems to have done the trick. I can now get a full day out of my phone and don't have to sit with it plugged in to the charger everytime I get back to my desk.
So if you are having a slow battery drain, or even a fast one, I would recommend doing a Reset All Settings reset and see if it helps you. It seems to have done the trick for me.

Tips here:
http://www.overthought.org/blog/2014/the-ultimate-guide-to-solving-ios-battery-d rain

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