Iphone 3 will NoT wake up.   Repost from archive

My iphone 3g has been tethered to my computer via USB since *AUGUST 2010* and iphone software 4.2.1 and before that. It Would work untethered if I put the IPod on shuffle for as long as it took to run the battery out, about 1.5 days.
I bought a new battery based on Apple Discussions, and was going to install it today. Note, WAS!
Oddly enough, my iphone 3g now works GREAT.
Hm, installed ITunes 10.1.1 (4) on 12/18/2010 and now the phone doesn't need the battery I spent $ for. I found out by mistake that it no longer needed to be tethered to my computer today.
I'm seriously disgruntled with certain Apple Discussions highly rated ppl telling me I was nuts for thinking it was software issues even though the iphone turned into a brick after a software update, and I'm unhappy that Apple would NOT admit there were issues. In the meantime, I'm not doing anymore freaking updates since I have a phone that holds a charge for HOURS and now works just FINE! (WITHOUT THE NEW BATTERY I THOUGHT I NEEDED)
I love apple, and I hate them for lying to me about their software issues. Especially, Thanks to the butthead that gave me loads of manure for thinking it was a software issue, you're an ejit.

I've been an active participant in the iPhone discussions for over 3 years and I don't recall an outcry that manifested over time here or otherwise, and since I have installed and used every firmware version, I don't recall a firmware update that listed this particular problem as being addressed specifically with the update, so since you are certain this was addressed specifically with a firmware update that was listed as being included with the update, please provide the firmware version since I'm interested in learning new things. I haven't seen many if any other threads here that include this particular problem.
And you honestly think AT&T did something that has affected the iPhone's home button for an extremely small percentage of users with the number of posts here reporting this particular problem being very few that Apple is "scrambling" to fix?
I didn't say fix since a hardware problem won't be fixed at an Apple store. I said confirmed - big difference. And since you don't get out much, where does having little faith in Apple stores come from? The times I have been at an Apple store specifically near the genius bar, I have witnessed problems being addressed. They do very little if any selling at the genius bar.

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