IPhone 3G - Phone goes black and won't go past apple logo

I have an Iphone 3G... It will work fine and then the screen will go black... when I plug it in to the charger it will display the apple logo but will not cycle past the apple logo screen, then it will go black again and come back on and repeat this cycle. If I let it sit it will sometimes be able to cycle through and will allow me to restore... but without warning it will go black and I have to hope that I can get past the logo screen to do another reset. Does anyone have any ideas... is something internal shifting or is the battery getting old (screen shows full battery power) The back of the phone does seem warm. Please help... I took it to the genius' at the apple store and they were no help... only told me that it was out of warranty and I had to give up $199.00 for a new phone, not even for the 3GS, the same iphone 3G. I'd rather wait till June??? when the new Iphone comes out.

Well, it seems as though you answered your own question. While it is apparent the phone has an issue, since it is out of warranty, Apple will not replace it, except under their out of warranty replacement policy, which is the $199 they quoted you, and that is for a refurbished phone. The only other option I'm aware of it to try and force it to restore, read this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
Since you are not willing to do the out of warranty replacement, which I can understand given the possible introduction of a new handset in the near future, if the article I linked for you doesn't work, you may have to live with a different phone for a short time.

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