IPhone 5 not turning on and is stuck in recovery mode

First off i have an 32gb iphone 5 which is running ios 7.0.4.
Last week my iphone kept crashing and restarting by itself. then, sometime in the night the other day it went into recovery mode and the screen looked like this
http://www.copytrans.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/iphone-recovery-mode-io s-7.png
I used TinyUmbrella to fix this and the phone went back to normal until the next day, when it suddenly turned off in my hand (whilst at 100%) and wouldnt turn on (with a black screen). i tried a hard reset but that didn't work. I connected it to my computer which said that it was in recovery mode and i needed to restore it. i tried this as my last option to make it work but when it begins to restore the computer tells me that it is waiting for iphone, while the iphone stays at 0. When i click restore is the only time my iphone screen lights up. the phone does not move and eventually i am forced to do a hard reset to stop it. then the screeen goes back to black and won't turn on until i restore, then everything happens again.
I have tried DFU mode but when i do it my phone disappers from itunes (in recovery mode) and comes back when i let go of all buttons.
Is there anything else i can do?

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