This topic is being discussed in multiple threads but thought Id post what Ive done to remedy it on both mine and my wifes 4S. Some items may have not done anything but the overall result has been extremely positive.
Notifications only have these running:
Weather Widget
Phone
Messages
Calendar
Facebook
NBC News
Stock widget
Mail
ESPN score center
The Weather channel
Government alerts are both ON
Use cellular Data for: Only iCloud documents is ON, all others OFF
Location Services: All ON except Camera, Chrome, safari
iCloud: All OFF except Contacts, Calendars, find my iPhone, my photo stream, documents & data and use cellular data
Storage & backup: iCloud backup is OFF
Facetime: use cellular data is OFF
iTunes and App Store: all OFF
Music: iTunes match is OFF
Mail: All mail accounts set to fetch 15 minutes.
Photos and camera: My photo stream is ON. Shared photo streams is OFF
Facebook: calendar and contacts are OFF, Facebook ON
After these parameters were set I full charged the phone. Once fully charged with the phone still attached to the charger, preformed a hardware reset. Battery performance is the same if not better than 5.1.1.
Hope this helps others.
Notifications only have these running:
Weather Widget
Phone
Messages
Calendar
NBC News
Stock widget
ESPN score center
The Weather channel
Government alerts are both ON
Use cellular Data for: Only iCloud documents is ON, all others OFF
Location Services: All ON except Camera, Chrome, safari
iCloud: All OFF except Contacts, Calendars, find my iPhone, my photo stream, documents & data and use cellular data
Storage & backup: iCloud backup is OFF
Facetime: use cellular data is OFF
iTunes and App Store: all OFF
Music: iTunes match is OFF
Mail: All mail accounts set to fetch 15 minutes.
Photos and camera: My photo stream is ON. Shared photo streams is OFF
Facebook: calendar and contacts are OFF, Facebook ON
After these parameters were set I full charged the phone. Once fully charged with the phone still attached to the charger, preformed a hardware reset. Battery performance is the same if not better than 5.1.1.
Hope this helps others.