IPad goes into a "coma"; hard to wake it up

I have an iPad that was recently replaced by Apple for this very problem. I will have used my iPad and the battery level is very high, it is working fine, I put it away, and when I go back to use it, it has shut itself down completely. Even worse, it will not wake up with just holding the sleep button for 5 seconds. You can hold it for minutes, and nothing will happen. You can push every button. Hold home and sleep, push volume, etc. and NOTHING works, it's just "dead". Then you hold the sleep button down again for an uncertain amount of time, and it will boot up and then work fine. You never can tell when it will pull its shut down routine. It's seemingly random. And you can never tell what it will take timewise and button wise before it decides it's willing to start back up again. Same problem on two different iPads.
At times it also is now having a problem when the screen will randomly dim and freeze completely. And then no button works properly at all until you hold home and sleep interminably and then it shuts down and reboots.
I've gone in for genius bar appts, and they had me do a complete cloud backup and erase and restore (which took hours, btw) and then the same thing kept happening. Took it in again, and they decided to replace the iPad. Erased my old one, gave me a new one. I put only a few of the apps that I had on there before. I did not do a complete restore, since they thought there might be a bug in the restore, but the iPad is still doing the same thing. This has been happening since I upgraded to iOS7.
I am very frustrated and want to know the next step to having a healthy iPad. I am still within my Apple Care window for support.
Sincerely,
Kim

reset all settings
settings-general-reset-reset all settings
now reconnect to wifi
settings- wifi- click network name- enter password - join
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