IOS 7 kills 4S battery

I updated to iOS 7 last night on my 4S.
Now, I have Push/Location/Bluetooth/Wi-fi/Siri/Background tasks completely turned off, yet I'm loosing 1% of battery *every minute* and the phone is really hot (even if it's sitting idle with screen turned off next to me on my desk). This litteraly means 100 minutes of battery life!
Battery life was already lousy with 6.1.3, and now it's even worse. And here I was thinking iOS 7 would fix this.
What's the point of having a smart phone is you have to turn off 90% of the features to squeeze out just a few hours of battery life?
Aside from the obvious wiping/install as new phone, what can I do?

I have found that when I close as many apps in control center as possible, it seems to conserve battery.
Charging the device to an outlet without using it for 48 hours seems to restores lenght of battery.
Portable battery recharging is not enough electric current to extract energy. Unlike older cell phones that killed the battery if it was plugged in to an outlet all the time, smart phones need power.
I have made a habit to close out all apps before i turn off devices which speeds up all my functions when I repower.
Remember to go to settings and delete cookies, unwanted data and history. This will save data fees and disk storage. Get rid of stuff like ancient music, bookmarks and old photos.
Also backup mobile device to computer, not just to icloud save data storage, battery and you can recover information easier.
A word about devices and car charges:
Also don't leave your car charger connected in the car it drains the car battery even if car is not running.
I learned the hard way on this tip
Be adivsed I am not a tech specialist but have used these methods and have found them to work. Logic behind this method is that less the device has to keep memorized as open the less energy it will use. Smart phones are mini computers jamming all our needs into a tiny drive.

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