Blank screen freezes on black randomly or after calls due to 3.1 update new

I just spoke to App Care. They are very aware and aggresively escalating this according to both product specialists I spoke to. The fix right now is to backup, factory restore, and restore your backup to your iphone. I am not going to be able to this due to travel for a couple months, and was asked very nicely to basically "deal" with the problem and perform a hard reset everytime the backlight timeout coma occurs until an official fix is announced, or I can restore at home which is 3000 miles away. Mine mostly seems to happen after a phone call, so I am looking for any patterns that cause it.

I had a couple days of no lock outs, then today its been very bad. I have had to hard reset 5-6 time, once during an actual call the phone screen locked up on black. I knew this because a text came in during the call, and when I looked at the screen it was blank. From this point forward the call quality was very poor and after the other line hung up, I had to hard reset to get back to normal. Starting to make me feel like this is a hardware failure, that unfortunately is occuring to most users who have older 3G phones. Makybe the accelerometer is dying, I don't know.
I am certain that my battery life has severly decreased in the past month, I think in conjunction with the 3.1 update.
I will be surprised at this point if Apple announces anything major in the way of a fix. Most out of warranty iphone users will just get new iphones.

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