IPhone 3gs has completely died. totally unresponsive HELP!!

Hi everyone.. My daughter has an iphone 3gs. About 2 weeks ago it suddenly died! I put it on charge all night and nothing! I held the home button and power button together for 10 seconds, 30 seconds etc etc i tried dfu mode, it didnt work at all. When plugged into itunes, itunes does not pick up the device at all. Then after 2 days it suddenly came on!! I instantly backed it up and restored it from new, hoping that if it were a software issueu, this would have solved it.. Anyway.. it was working fine, untill just now! The same has happened again! I live so far away from an Apple store and i have 3 young children so would find it almost impossible to find time to get to one. Can anybody assist me further, as travelling to an Apple store really needs to be my last resort. I can see this happens to lots of people, but no one ever comments on the solution after visiting an Apple Store and was hoping someone could help. Many thanks for your time
Bethan x

Call Apple support...if you cannot go to a near Apple store they will offer other service options like normal delivery or express delivery if this is really a hardware issue or battery issue... try to restore as new without the data (apps / music / video) it might be the data causing the iphone not to work...

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