IOS5 Battery Drain -- Temporary Fix

One of the things I always admired about both iPad1 & 2, was their amazing battery life. Even as a hardcore user, I would still have enough charge at night, after using the iPad all day. When not in use, the battery drain was almost 0%.
I updated to iOS5 on 12 October, and to my disgust, I have a complete battery drain on all my iDevices. At 100% charge, without using my second iPad whatsoever, with no apps running in the background, I ended up at 26% today in TWO HOURS. This is outrageous.
This is a plea to Apple to fix this, because the temporary fix of deleting all your email connexions, and then redoing them, is not an acceptable workaround for an update problem which should've been addressed immediately when it appeared on iOS5 Beta. Google, and you'll see all the complaints about this around June 2011, when the Beta of iOS5 came out.
To recap: Delete all your email accounts, and the re-add them. Also, be aware that iCloud syncing & Location services drain the battery. Your battery will still drain much more than with iOS4.x.x after deleting and re-adding the email account(s), but it's the only way to stop the battery from overheating within a matter of minutes.
Here is the link to Mac Rumours Forum where I found the "fix".
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/ios-apps/253358-ios5-3gs-battery-life-heat-issu es.html

I have been having this problem since upgrading to IOS 7. My wifi field was greyed out so you could NOT turn it on. I heated it with a blow drier til it said it was too hot to use except for emergency calls. I then cooled it in freezer and my wifi was turned on and it connected to my home wifi network. very Cool and thank you so much! I was pulling my hair out on this issue....jfshotgun

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Current Power Source:          Yes
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sajith5 wrote:
I have recently brought an iphone 4s and the battery is draining even without much use. please advice if any one is able to fix it with some patches or updates iOS 5.0.1
I have personally seen the problem and corrected it on numerous models now including the 4S, 4, 3GS and iPad 2s. Corrupt system level settings created by an iOS 5 bug in the original release that caused battery recalibration issues, etc. Just installing the update does not fix the issue in most cases (sometime it initially can be worse). You need to clear out those settings and recalibate the battery. For those still having the "standby battery drain" issue follow the procedure below in order. It does fix the problem in most cases.
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More details on my thread here if needed:https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3484755

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