IPhone screen really dark, unable to us it! Help!

Hello,
The screen on my iPhone has suddenly gone really dark (it was like that when I switched it on this morning!) - I can not really use it as its almost impossible to see anything, I can only just make out what the different menues are. So the backlight seems to have broken. Any one else who has experienced this? What to do? I have turned it off several times, I have even reset it once and charged it... and obviously checked the light settings.
Your help is much appreciated!
BR
Erika

Right i've been restoring, backing up, syncing and trying different things all day. I've found this and the screen has been ok for 10 minutes now! My issue was intermittant so i knew the screen could go bright.
"Alright what ya wanna do is go into your settings/go into brightness/turn off the Auto Brightness feature off/turn the iPhone completely off/wait 30 seconds/from there turn it back on/check to see if the auto brightness is still off/if not put it into sleep mode/wake it up/should have the same brightness as it did when you put it to sleep/now that the phone is back on/go bvack inbto settings then brightness/turn on auto brightness/shut down the phone/wait 30 seconds/then turn the phone back on./put it to sleep/wake it up/problem should be solved//VR"
Thanks to vipeR on the other thread for this

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