IPhone5 Battery Issues Fixed

I wanted to come share my experience with everyone, and maybe it will help some others out there.
Backstory: Bought an iphone5, slowly after adding emails, apps, wifi, and whatever else I can think of, I actually thought the battery life was good. However, sometime in late November I went from being able to unplug my phone before work, and not have to charge it until I got home, to having to have it plugged in at work, or at least charge it multiple times a day. If I went out after work, with phone @ 100%, it would be dead before I got home. At most, the battery life was about 3 hours.
No one at the apple store or sprint store was very helpful. I was told to turn off wifi (we don;t have LTE in seattle, so that was off) make sure all apps are closed through the double tapping homescreen, making sure bluetooth is off, I disabled icloud..... it didn't even give me 20 minutes worth of life.
I was getting so fed up, I seriously considered buying a galaxy 3 and just eating the cost. Thankfully, I found someone online who had the same story as me. I followed his steps of simply "resetting network settings" It didn't erase any of my info on my phone, but my phone is back to working properly. I went all weekend without having to charge it more then once, and I have been at work streaming pandora since about 8am, and I am at 68% currently. Whatever the network reset was, fixed the issue. It closed whatever was running, that was destroying my battery.
I hope this helps.

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