IPhone 4S (fw 5.1.1) wont restore from back up

So im having this issue concerning about my phone getting stuck on a black screen with a circle loading in it. It occured after i have restored my phone from factory settings then restoring it from back up. Upon trying to restore it from a recent backup, the phone always end up not finishing the sync and the phone restarts and whenever i try opening the phone w/o connecting it to the computer, it just gets stuck on the same process and eventually restarts. The phone could run normally if i wont restore it from back up but that would be very much of a hassle since i would be syncing everything from the start, i guess that would be my last resort aside from sending this back to apple to have it checked.
P.S.
I also received an error that states "iTunes was unable to load provider data from Sync Services. Reconnect or try again later."
Please help...

Update on the issue at hand.
I tried restoring my iPhone using an older backup that came from my old phone which was an iPhone 3G.. like 3 months back and it worked.. i still havent figured out on why would the phone not accept my recent phone backup. Its possible that the backup was corrupted or something OR due to the size of the backup and firmware compatibility it caused the phone to crash and restart while syncing. I even tried waiting for the phone to finish syncing eventhough the screen of my phone only shows a white circle loading. But due to the size of the app, it never finished syncing coz the phone eventually restarts itself making the whole syncing process start from scratch. I would really hope apple would come up with a solution or at least a statement concerning about this kind of problem.
Notes:
iPhone 4S backup size reached around 22GB while the backup file that worked only has 380mb. (Dont know if this info matters or not but i think its better for me to add the details.)

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