My iphone 5s fail to restore

Hi,
With regret this is to acknowledge that I am one of your FEW unlucky iphone users who has been struggling with the device ever since he purchased it.
I have been a great admirer of apple and its products. However this time it is a very frustrating experience which forced me to write this long email.
Hope someone would read it and help me !!
I purchased my iphone 5s in Dec 2013, just a year back.
Below are the device details:
IPHONE-5S SPACE GRAY 16GB-USA
Using this device felt like it worth investing so much of my hard earned money. I used to admire my iphone and flaut infront of my friends and collegaue.
I still believe it worth it.
Not many months passed when I started getting blackout problem. The device used to crash all of a sudden in between using any app and I had to use power button to bring it back on again. Initially this used to occur rarely, so I used to ignore it. Later on, as few more months passed, this problem occurred more frequently. Then I thought of taking help from apple support. They recommended me to get rid of few gaming apps then your problem should be resolved. Being a game freak, this didn't sound a good option to me, after all playing games on iphone was a totally different experience. However, I obeyed as the executive suggested just to ensure my device is safe.
Few more months passed, without any games on my iphone , this problem occurred again. Now even while using any built-in apps, it started crashing.
On few occasions it almost embarrassed me. When my friends asked me to click few pics from my phone and it crashed. Sometimes it happened that after crash, when I tried to power on, it didn't turn on. This is when I started to freak out, I mean what the heck has happened to my iphone. It was really frustrating.
After making many calls to apple support with many ticket numbers (all the ticket numbers are mentioned at bottom of this mail), all they understood was that there is some problem with my data on the device now. So they suggested me to restore my iphone as a new device without any apps and data. I did that and it ran without any problem for few days. However, after few more days, my mobile network signal went off and it always showed in searching mode. I thought this might be a carrier problem so I went to Vodafone store and got a new SIM. But this didn't solve the problem. The same SIM worked fine on my wife's iphone (I gifter her iphone 5s on her birthday), however putting it back on my iphone the signal didn't come up and it always showed me in searching mode.
Another call to apple support, another ticket number and same suggestion to try and restore as new iphone. I followed as my lord said, but the problem didn't resolve. After couple of more restore attempt, my iphone is now refusing to take any more restore request It is talking in terms of error codes now. Sometimes it threw error code, 1, sometimes, 9, sometime 12.
I took my iphone to apple service center and they declared it to be a hardware problem. Adding more action to my iphone experience, they said since this was purchased from USA, this cannot fixed in India. This was a great setback as I have no plan in near time to visit USA.
I tried to reach out to my friends if anyone of them or their friends are flying to USA I can handover my iphone to him. However, no one tunred up and dropped a penny to my begging bowl.
I am losing all hopes now. The status of my iphone now is, with almost a year of struggle, it is now kept silently in my cupboard. I am back to using my old samsung handset still trying to figure out when will i be able to use my iphone again.
This email, I know it has stretched a bit, is my last hope to reach all those helping hands. Please help me get my iphone back. Please bring back my happy days back using my iphone.
Looking forward for help !!
P.S: Ticket Numbers of apple support along with dates:
Regards,
Ashish
+91-9873800479

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