Iphone 4s text / crashing problems

I have an iphone 4s running ios 7.0.0. The phone is about 9 months old.
Last week my iphone started to respring spontaneously. Today, after clearing out all of my text / iMessages, no new texts would save. I would send a message or recieve a message, then when I would exit out of the app all of the messages were blank- the names were still there. I did a complete restore on the phone and set it up as a new phone. It still resprings spontaneously. I checked for water damage and everything came up white (I only checked the sensors on the outside. The phone has literally been in a LifeProof case since I left AT&T with it and the case was tested before being put on as well as a few weeks ago.)
Anyone have any idea what could be going on?

Just to clarify, since restoring the phone the message issue seems to be resolved, however I would like to find out why it's respringing and why the issue with the messages was occuring. It's starting to get annoying to have a phone that resets all the time and I really don't want a device that I have to restore every week or so.

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