IPhone 3G freezing up after 3.1 update

I have three iPhones in my house hold. I update all of them 3.1 at the same time. Tow of them are 8 gig 3g models and the third one is a 16 gig 3GS. Since the update to 3.1 there are times the phone freezes up at random. It will not respond at all. Just a black screen. You can not power it down to do a reset. I will just have to let it sit. Sometimes 10 minutes up till 2 hours before it will come back to life. At times it will not make or receive phone calls or text messages or it freezes up on an app and you cant do anything with it other than leave it alone. Battey life since the update on both 3G models is half of what it was prior to 3.1. Not sure what causing this issue. Does not seem to affect the 3GS as much. More prone to the 3G than 3GS. I have tried a rest, restore and even erased phones like they were new and downloaded every app and song like it was the first time. No help. My daughter had a flat last tuesday night and her phone would not function at all. This bug needs to be corrected ASAP. I can not rely on a phone that is not going to function at random or in an emergency situation. My daughter was frantic and could not get in touch with anyone to let us know she needed help. Phone was a paper weight at that time. She had to walk to a store and call me from a land line. Apple- Fix the problem. My daughters life could be a stake and were relying on a cell phone to stay in contact when shes not a home. Is'nt that what we have cell phones for? To be able to place a call anytime needed? Can someone tell me if Apple is taking this issue serious? This is crazy. Phones freeze up at random 3-5 times a day since update to 3.1.

I have kind of the same problems here... after the 3.1 update my iphone started to fail in several aspects... the displays freezes up, does not respond at all. I cant turn it off or on, it wont respond even after trying to reset. Sometimes I have to wait up to 1 hour for it to come back. At times it wont receive calls, drop calls, wont get txt messages. I went to Claro (carrier en GT) and they couldnt provide me with a solution, however offered me a new iphone 3GS... yeah right, some solution.
This problem WAS NOT caused by me, I have not jailbreak my iphone and I have used itunes to perfom updates all the time... APPLE need to solve this problems ASAP with a new update version or a patch, something...
Does anybody managed to fix this kind of problems? what should I do?
HELP !!!

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