Iphone 3GS backlight stopped working.

I've had my phone for 11 months now (Lucky me almost lost warranty ) and recently it has started this thing where the backlight will quit working for a bit, but sooner or later it starts working again. But unfortunately this time whenever the backlight went out, it stayed out. I cannot get the backlight on my phone to turn back on. I've restarted my phone holding home and unlock like 10 times, i've even restored my iphone through itunes and it didn't fix it. I also tried going into setting and turning up the brightness.
Please help!
If i can't find a solution i'm probably just going to run up to my nearest apple store, but i've read alot of threads of people fixing this on there own, but i don't have a clue and i've tried all their solutions.

Take it to your local Apple Store. If restoring it didn't work it's hardware.
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