IPhone shuts down randomly - wont complete restarting

Hi, my iPhone 3GS shuts down randomly everyday during use. Plenty of battery (more than 50% at the lowest). It just goes black. And there is a strange vertical banding in the black dead screen. Restarting begins working, apple logo appears, but after a long wait it just quits again and goes black. Again, there is plenty of battery charge, this can happen on a full charge. Have tried hard-restarting by pressing power and home with the same result. Only when I have plugged it into a power source does it boot. It can then be disconnected immediately and used for hours, or until it crashes again.
This often happens with angry birds (any version) but that's just because I play it too much, it can also happen using apple apps like mail.
I have tried resetting as well.
This is a frustrating problem because once it happens the phone is completely bricked until I get to a power source for 20 seconds to restart.
Any ideas?

I have the exsact same problem! .. Sometimes when it reboots it wont even load the OS and goes into recover mode. Iv searched all over the internet for what to do. Iv restored it around 4 times and still the time. Only started happing since updating it to iOS5.1!
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OK, i'll come back again later. Here in Germay it's 1:30AM now, so it's quite difficult to call the nearby AppleStore.
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