HT201412 iPhone 5 with iOS 7.1 randomly enters recovery mode

Since two weeks ago my phone started behaving badly just before the new update was released.
While locked it happens that it enters recovery mode (iTunes says that, while another software I downloaed to try to force it out says it is on "soft DFU mode") and won't exit it for hours: indeed after a bunch of time I'm able to turn it back to functioning by pressing the Home Button and the Power Button in random sequences (when I mean random, I mean random: it doesn't just wake up following either the 'exit recovery mode' or 'exit dfu mode').
I restored it, yet the same still happens. It is now, basically, an unpredictable piece of junk metal.
Any ideas?
Notes: it is not jailbroken nor it has ever been, the software is up to date.

Try restoring as a NEW device (not from a backup) to see if it works properly.

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