IPhone 3gs running ios5 crashes weekly.

I updated my 3gs to ios5 when the new software was released a few weeks ago but since then it crashes about every 2 weeks where the Apple logo comes up, the phone reboots then does the same thing 30 seconds later and keeps cycling.
The only way I seem to be able to solve it, is to do a system restore from iTunes which works but then the same thing seems to happen a week or 2 down the line again. This is very frustrating and I'm wondering if an App is causing this problem, however I have very few apps installed on it and nothing that I can think would cause a problem?!
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Jon

Similar problem......but mine seems to be power related.   Start off in the morning fully charged, then by noon it indicates charge is hardly down but it dies and cycles on the re-start.  Bring it home, and discover it is dis-charged, so re-charge and it loads fine.  You can't tell the battey status when it keeps re-booting.  I think it might be location services or iCloud updates that drain it but that's just a guess

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