IPhone 3GS random recovery mode

Hey
Since a few days ago my iphone just randomly keeps going into recovery mode! Its not jailbroken its not anything! its just a iphone I bought updated in iTunes normally I dont understand why this is happening! I had loads of issues restoreing it at first it would not work error -1 came up in iTunes and then all of a sudden it booted as a new iphone. I thought great I got it working again but now if I turn my iPhone off it goes into recovery mode or just randomly it will go into revocery mode and tell me I need to activate my phone.
Please help! I run my Record Label business on this phone and I need it so badly!

No.
Hardware can fail with a partial or complete failure without being dropped.
Once again, if the iPhone is constantly going into recovery mode it has a major problem. If no change after restoring the iPhone with iTunes as a new iPhone or not from the backup, the iPhone has a hardware problem.

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