IPhone Freezing up?

Today I noticed that sometimes when I am typing something in a text message the phone will freeze and after about twenty seconds or more it will put what I typed and be fine. It also sometimes freezes when I sometimes try to unlock it and it will just stay black and then come up in about twenty seconds. If someone knows of anything please get back to me as soon as possible.
Thank you.

This is also happening to me.My first iPhone was fine for about 9 months.First it was the battery life (which I have turned off location servicse, roaming and and 3G. Then the freezing started - first with browsing, then increased to in th middle of calls. Took to genius bar - where recommended to restore. Worked fine a few more weeks, then started again. Ran diagnostics, then back to genius. Unfortunately doing that wiped the log clean (don't get that!). Apple gave me a new phone. I restored everything - not just loading previous software in case a bug/bad application. Worked fine for a few weeks, then began happening again! Deleted all downloaded apps, turned off roaming, location etc and restored. Now freezing in calls, music skipping and stopping all together. This is crazy and annoying. Getting ready to toss it completely.

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Sometimes if I delete the backup and it has to make a fresh one it will work, but the last time I tried this it did not (first time it failed to work).
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I have the exact same problem. In a different thread I have found a partial solution; it will do an automatic sync without the "apply" trick but it will not make a back up:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6406167
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/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Resources/
AppleMobileDeviceHelper.app/Contents/Resources/AppleMobileBackup
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Remove the AppleMobileDevice app as instructed, copy it to another folder and trash the one in the app.
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Then i copied he AppleMobileDevice back in again, disconnected the phone and reconnected...and now it works properly! It backs up every time, ive tried unplugging and reconnecting and it works everytime. I even have automatic sync ticked and the backup works everytime.
It appears we just needed to remove this AppleMobileDevice, then whatever issues Itunes was having during backup no longer happen when you click sync..excellent! and no need to erase all from phone!"
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