iPhone 4 and ios 5 draining the battery

Updated thought:

If I turn off "contacts" under settings within icloud, the search wheel doesn't continually run and the devise is much cooler... of course turning off features like that is not a fix, but does let me have better batter life. We'll see how it does overnight.

Other icloud features seem not to have the same issue of "searching."

Thoughts?

Overnight 9 hours later:

(with the iCloud settings off for contacts) the phone still had power... Which is a major improvement for power, but again turning functions IS NOT a solution. To be sure, the phone is not as full as it use to before iOS 5, but it wasn't dead before changing the setting either. (42% after 9 hours off sitting from a full charge) Before ios 5, that same overnight would be 90+%

Phone was cool/room temp instead of warm from processing (which was another aspect of concern.) So now, to keep digging to see what other rouge processes might be killing battery life and usage.

Strange though, the one of the big deals with ios 5 was the feature to go wireless... But now one must keep their charger close by or you end up with a dead battery.

One step forward, two steps back. (anyone else find new iOS 5 less funtional?)

Charging update:

Battery went from 42% to 100% in just over an hour. That seems really quick (device was in the on mode and I did check email so it wasn't totally inactive) but with this new ios the phone just isn't as solid or predictable... at this point.

Of course with this "work around" with icloud and contacts: if I update anything contact related I'll have to manually switch icloud/contacts on and then off again. I wonder whatelse is draining the battery, any suggestions?

Battery update:

With minor use (checked email and calendar items,) 2 hours have passed and power is listed at 77% Does anyone have other observations on this issue? It still seems to be declining faster then I expect... but that's just me. The device is a touch on the warmish side, but nothing like days before.

No Joy!

So about the six hour mark, the iPhone 4 died. That's only 1.5 to 2 hours longer before turning off "contacts." I believe mail might also be a big player in draining the battery even if there is much traffic.

Sadness, anyone had more success?

iCloud

Attempting to find the colperate of the power drain I have now turned off iCloud when not requiring those services. And as you may have guessed the power drain has stopped. No longer does the phone seem warm. Of course the main upgrade that ios 5 was seeming planned to do has become the issue.

So when I'm at my desk and it's charging I'll activate iCloud, but when it's time to work/play or otherwise go about my day iCloud gets turned off. What a disappointment, but hopefully there will be a fix or setup to correct this issues my iphone 4 is experiencing.

iOS 5 battery issues:

Seems that using "exchange mail" has increased battery life compared to using fetch related emails... It also provides push function, so improvement all the way around. Still issues, but adjusting like life requires.

Possible news:

The mail exchange service has been something that seems to really be great. I have my apple account, but also not apple accounts for work and such. By using the microsoft exchange protacal my phone seems to be back in normal pre-ios 5 shape :)

If you have non-apple mail accounts I'd suggest using exchange and it makes all the accounts push and gets rid of fetch and poor battery life too boot.

I did ask about downgrading to the previous generation of ios at apple, they were not able to assist as "5" is the current version.

Post what you findout