Has anyone else experienced blue screens and continuous reboots on 5S

Question

I picked up my silver 5S 32 GB at the Verizon store Friday morning.  Throughout the morning I noticed that I would hit the home button and it would be powered down.  I loaded the .1 patch assuming maybe it was a glitch.  I went through the rest of the day with a couple more home button/powered down situations.  When I got I home, I plugged it in to iTunes to recover a backup and following the restore it went into blue screen reboot cycle.  I performed the soft reset and restored the backup 3 times with the same results.  The soft reset was the only means to stop the reboot cycle.  I then tried 3 times doing a restore from the cloud with the exact same results.  Finally I did a from scratch install thinking my backups were bad.  It would stay up awhile but then eventually go into the blue screen and reboot.  Sometimes the cycle wouldn't occur in that it would boot up to Home screen following the blue screen.  I took the phone to the Apple store the next day, they looked it over, witnessed the blue screen and confirmed there was an issue.  I then went to the Verizon store and swapped it for a Space Grey 32GB.  I experienced the exact same cycle with the grey so I called Apple.  I have spent 3+ hours working through this with a very helpful agent.  Turns out a have 2 bad ones in a row!  The way I can almost instantly get it to go to blue screen is clicking the Photos icon.  Now I am waiting on a second replacement at the Apple store.  We have done the soft reset, the hard reset, and the phone restore so we know now that the backup had nothing to do with it as I can do a restore and still have it blue screen after clicking Photos.  Anyone seeing anything like this?

Answer 1

Searching for others who might have the same problem increases your chance of finding a solution.  Common sense in troubleshooting devices dictates you look for others who might have the same problem in hopes someone already has a solution.  Your comment is irrelevant and leads one to think you are spoiling for an argument.  Why???