Government Alerts (AT&T) + MicroCell = dead battery

Had to add my two cents here because this is the first place I've seen where other people are having this same issue.

I have a less-than-six-months-old iPhone5. As soon as I did the "Carrier Settings" update, the battery drain was immediate and consistent. I did TWO wipe and restores on my phone to no avail. I brought the phone into the Apple store yesterday and the suggestion was to do a "DFU Resture" (which I'm now convinced means "Dummy-FU!") and set the phone up as a "new" phone (so I just wiped all my messages, photos, etc. except on a backup (and those are not easy to extract from a backup) plus I had to re-set up all my favorites, custom tones, bluetooth and even my voicemail. Today at work I had the same issue with battery drain and on top of that the phone is having a **** of a time actually connecting to a call (I'll have five bars and then have seven dropped "Call fail attempts" in a row (followed immediately by a "No Service" notice.) I'm in Los Angeles and travel all over the city for work and in areas where I know there is usual good coverage, I can't even seem to make a call (forget texting or email - unless I specifically turn on LTE, I can't do that).

I'm not on a microcell, so I have to agree with other posters here that I don't think this is MC related, but rather carrier update related.

I posted on Facebook warning friends on AT&T to ignore the update if they were notified of it and one of my friends posted "You don't get an option!!! Three of my friends and myself had it happen. It's all quirky now. Power button won't turn it off!!"

I'm heading back to the Apple store tonight after work to see if they can wipe this settings update and restore me to an old firmware. Barring that, a big LONG talk with AT&T customer service (through a land line apparently since I can no longer rely on my iPhone).

So I finally got the new microcell and the new carrier update(14.2) and all seems back to normal over the past 3 days. My connection to the microcell is steady and battery life is as expected. I don't think it had anything to do with the microcell and all to do with the update but that is just my 0.02. The reason that I don't think it was the microcell is that my old microcell had a stable connection as does the new one. Hopefully, everything continues to work and hopefully everyone else's issue gets resolved.

I have an iPhone 4 that recieved the emergency alert update a few weeks ago. I went to notifications after recieving the carrier notice and the emergency alerts were at the bottom. I left both of the alerts ON. Last night I had a conversation was an iPhone 4 user about these new emergency alerts - when I went to show him where they are located in notifications - they were gone. I think AT&T de-installed the emergency notification from my phone. Not sure why it was removed - maybe they relized the app is a serious battery drain.

It was strange to know it was installed & active and the next time I looked it's gone.

Has anyone else experienced this?

The emergency alerts were not supposed to be installed on the iPhone 4, as the device itself does not support the alerts. That is probably why they pushed the 14.2 carrier update, to correct that error.

FYI, it has not been a battery problem for me, even though it has been for some people.

My IPhone 4 is running IOS 6.1.3 and the carrier is AT&T 14.2. Like i mentioned in the earlier thread - I found it strange that I received the carrier update notice, had the emergency alerts in notifications and the next time (2 weeks later) I looked they were gone. So it appears that the emergency alerts were installed and then de-installed for some reason.