iOS 5.1 and battery?

do still need turn of system locations (time zone, trafic, etc..) safe battery under ios 5.1?

 

i found our iphone 3gs has suffered decrease in battery life ios 5.1, we're not sure if that's because of imessage. our iphone 4s seems ok though

 

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