RESTORE NEEDED????

My Iphone 4 i recently bought off someone always loses service, then starts searching. Once that happens a message pops up stating i need to restore my phone and i am not able to make or receive calls. This happned last weekend and after restoring it, it worked perfectly. It started to happen again yesterday so I thought restoring it this time would work. I Restored it 5 times, still the same thing.

When you say restore, do you mean you went to Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings and restored it to facory condition?  Or do you mean you did a reboot by holding the power and home buttons until the apple logo appears and it restarts, ignoring the red slider if that appears?
Or do you mean something else?
Do a reboot, and if that does not help, backup your content and restore to factory condition and then restore the backup content to the iPhone.

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    Message was edited by: mimz3

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    https://support.apple.com/kb/TS3406
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