iPhone 3.1 problems flood our tip box

My 3Gs (32gb) on 3.1.2 STARTED having this problem about a week AFTER the 3.1.2 update!!

Started today and 'shutdown' twice already while being locked

I too had issues, but managed to resolve them, check it out...

http://duckie96.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/iphone-battery-issues-resolved/

iphone OS 3.1.2 update is out with bug fixes for the black screen / manual restart issue, cellular network connectivity issues

Downloading it now...

hopefully this fixes the crappy 3.1 update that just broke stuff.

After doing the recent update my iphone and my itunes suddenly will not save recent album artwork where I utilize my own photos for artwork. I've tried everything it seems and no luck. It will drop the photo into the artwork slot but as soon as you navigate away it will again say no artwork available. I've tried doing it for an entire playlist and personal artwork is there for all previous songs but not for the most recently added ones. Any ideas?

I've been getting lock ups and shutdowns since the upgrade. I have to do a reset several times a day. Miss important phone calls as well! x-(

I am not having any total random shutdowns but mine 3G randomly stops receiving or sending texts and emails until I do a hard reset. It never happened at all until 3.1. now I have to do it at least 1 or 2 times a day.

Went to an Apple store yesterday; the "technician" said he had never heard of any problems and his only solution was that I do a restore.

I'm so glad to find this. In the middle of some hectic back and forth my iPhone just shuts OFF! I'm pushing buttons screaming and knowing that the people on the other end(s) of this conversation are probably wondering WTF.
This is NOT just an issue that should be passed off. Anyone at Apple reading this should get their asses in gear and get something done to FIX this.
Not only am I losing patience, I'm losing time and cred.
I'm posting this on my website so people will know about this and start sending the pressure to Apple.
I went to make an appointment, it's Tuesday. I can't see anyone at an Apple store until Friday after 5:00 p.m. Hmm...does THAT say anything? I sorta feel sorry for the young kids there dealing with the angry iPhoner's.

My iPhone 3G (v3.1) goes into a coma when I mute the Phone in the dark!

When I flick the Mute switch in the dark (or with the phone laying face down), it will fail to vibrate as it should and when I try to subsequently unlock it, the home button or sleep button will do nothing. The phone is effectively in a coma and will not answer calls either. To use the phone again, I have to force reboot it with the Home and Standby key held down for 20 seconds.

If I disable Auto-Brightness the Mute switch doesn’t have that effect but the phone still won’t wake up in a dark room.

I had this issue three nights in a row where I would go to bed and try to turn on my iPhone 3G. After working fine all day in the light it would become comatose at night because I had muted the thing in the dark (for the benefit of my wife’s sleep)

I found that if I left it alone until the morning it would work okay again and I could unlock it - but I’m not sure how long it took to recover. Simply exposing it to light had no immediate effect. The next night I went to bed with the auto-brightness turned off but still it wouldn’t wake up to play Lexulous. So I left the room and held the iPhone up to a 100w light bulb - after a few seconds the phone came on!

Anyone else had this weirdness?

I also received call yesterday with the phone in my pocket, when I took it out to answer, the slider wouldn’t work and I thought I was going to miss the call but it seems like eventually it got enough light exposure and woke up just in time. It’s starting to interfere with business now so this weekend I intend to wipe the thing (again) and restore a fresh copy of 3.1 firmware.

UPDATE: Well I tried to downgrade to v3.0 but iTunes wasn’t having any of it. I downloaded the 3.0 firmware and alt-clicked the Restore button. This allows you to choose the firmware file to restore but iTunes will not validate it when it’s done. Maybe it did enough to overwrite my issue though because I then restored to v3.1 and now everything is working fine again. Another thing I did that was suggested elsewhere for this kind of problem - after updating to 3.1 take out the SIM card and play with the settings etc in that state for a bit. Not sure if that helped as well but I am very glad to have my life back in order. Also found out that Google Push email has arrived so set that up too.

UPDATE 2: After Lexulous has crashed a few times I am starting to see the old problem again - will ditch Lexulous and see how it goes. Maybe too many App crashes are killing the system.

my iPhone is paper weight and i have to pay 199 to fix it. It is ironic since Apple is always trashing Vista and 3.1 is worst. The phone does not even power up. Wonder why Apple has not responded on all these inquiries. I dont want to pay more money for something I did not do.