My iPhone 5 keeps restarting! And now it won't let me restore my phone!

My iPhone would freeze then restart itself from time to time, but now it's been happening every few minutes! And now, my phone can't even be restored from iTunes! I am quite angry because I payed a lot of money to buy my phone factory unlocked, and it is having problems on me! I've never even dropped my iPhone. It's really upsetting spending hundreds of dollars on a phone that has many problems.

Hello gnicholas98,
It may help to put your iPhone into recovery mode prior to attempting to restore it.
If you can't update or restore your iOS device
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
Cheers,
Allen

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