Iphone 5 Battery Drain FIX!!!!!

Got my iphone on launch day with ATT , been battling this battery drain for awhile! my phone from a full charge wouldnt last till 4pm with basic email reading, some facebook only.
as i was reading through the other thread with 190 replies!! i tried all the following
Restarting from New instead backup - didn't help
Turn off notification lte , all the other goodies the phone come with (come on whats the point?) - didnt help
someone mentioned that they saw a signal on their router blinking constantly while every other device was turned off.
i looked into my network log and what do you know... my iphone 5 constantly is trying to upload or sync to the icloud account NON STOP every 5 minute or so!!
THE FIX*
>General and turn off everything on your icloud account!!! i left my contacts on.
its been two days now and my battery is a day night diffierence!!
my current setting everything is on except bluetooth!
i hope this post will help some other to enjoy the iphone 5 at the best!

I can only relate my experience, but so far my iPhone 5 has shown the best battery life of all the previous phones. The only thing I've done is to let it drain down to about 15%, shut everything down and then restart the phone with the charger and let it charge overnight. This may be old wive's tale/voodoo but it doesn't hurt anything so I always do it with a new phone. My wifi is always on but I don't use bluetooth. Anyway with the same usage as my other iPhones including a little more since it is a new phone to me my battery life has been great.
I didn't get the phone on the first day it was released, it came a week later. In the meantime I was reading that very long thread about battery life and was concerned I might see a problem. So I was keeping an eye on this and have had no problems. There may be individual phones with such an issue but it doesn't seem to be significant, at least we haven't seen reports in the news the way we have about the Maps app!

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Background (I'm a little long-winded, sorry. Just skip down to "What-to-Do" if you are pretty sure you've had the same problems as me):
I got my iPhone 5s when it first came out. It's battery life was amazing, then the fire nation attacked. Jokes aside, the battery became worthless about a month ago after I updated to 7.1.2. I thought the issue was 7.1.2, but now that I fixed it, I don't think it is. I took my phone into the apple store about a week ago because I was off to college and needed to fix this problem before I left. They ran diagnostics and found kbd and backboard errors. They immediately replaced it. I was happy because I had a brand new phone, but the battery issues came back, and this time even worse. My phone was burning up, even hotter and it even froze sometimes. I then took it to a store near my college–which was difficult because I have no car here–where they did a reset because that's what they always do. I sat there and played with the phone to make sure the problem wasn't there. Turns out it was still there. I love apple genius bar employees, but not all of them are very knowledgeable about the products and how they work. I don't blame them because: updates can always cause new problems, it's probably above their pay-grade to memorize what every single error code means, and they don't necessarily have knowledge that lets them troubleshoot any problems that involve hidden processes that their apple-issued easy-button diagnostic test doesn't tell them about.
I then approached another employee who helped me immensely. He knew something was wrong, which was awesome because most employees do tend to blow you off, so he decided he'd try to help me fix it. He had a lot more knowledge about the phone. This time he found kbd errors again so he replaced it. After that process, he disappeared into the back of the employee's only part of the store. I tried playing around with the phone, and it was clear that the problem persisted. I then went and got help again. This time, the new person who was helping me went to the back, and I waited around for about an hour and a half not knowing what was going on. The whole time, I was wondering where the first guy who helped me disappeared to. For the sake of convenience, the first person who helped me in this paragraph will be Ian, and the second will be Will. Will eventually came back out, this time bringing Ian along with him. Turns out Ian had been doing research for me in the back for the last 1.5 hours and found that the problem probably had to do with iCloud. My phone was draining and overheating due to its attempt to download some sort of data with no success. So each time it failed, it would retry over and over again. This explains the overheating and battery drainage. We deleted some stuff from iCloud and it got a lot better.
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What-to-Do
1. Go to Settings —> iCloud —> Delete Account
Don’t worry, as long as you click “keep the stuff” or whatever it says, you won’t lose stuff
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3. Make sure all of the iCloud data that you care about is stored some where other than iCloud. For example, make sure your Pages files are on your computer.
4. Go to Settings —> iCloud —> Storage & Backup —> Manage Storage. Then delete the stuff under Documents and Data. I REPEAT, DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT FIRST MAKING SURE THE DATA IS ON YOUR COMPUTER IN SOME SHAPE OR FORM
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after further days of trying finally, solved it for me Yesterday.
turned off notifications when locked, and bingo, wow.
i have not turned off iCloud but location services are also off.
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the guy at the Genius Bar told me to restore the phone via iTunes, not iCloud. This is because iCloud remembers the exact info from your phone and simply reinstates it when you restore, and this includes the iOS too.
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