Screen freeze and fades to white

Hello,
I have an iPhone 4S.  Recently it's been kind of warm and muggy in my area so I attributed my phone acting weird to getting a little warm.
The issue I'm having is that for the last couple days my phone would randomly restart itself.  That in itself was weird, but it worked fine after the restart, and it felt warm so I figured it was a little hot.  I'd stop using it and let it cool down before using it again.
This morning when I woke up, my phone was on. I was using it to check tweets, etc, and it restarted again.  It felt warm, so after it reset itself, I went into the brightness controls and went to turn them way down and the control slider had ZERO effect on the brightness of the display. This worried me so I performed a hard reset (holding the home and power buttons) thinking it was just a glitch. 
After that hard reset, the apple logo appeared, and then a horizontal line appeared (which was not the standard Apple Loading Bar that appears when you're installing an update or something) then white noise dots showed up, then the screen faded from black, to green, to white, all while keeping the apple logo visibile in varying degrees until everythingn is totally white.
The display itself flickers rapidly, not on and off, but between extremes of dimness. Only noticeable around the edges of the sceen though.
The phone never vibrates, or makes any noises during this process, although it IS able to be hard reset again from that All White Screen.
On one occasion the phone made it past the All White Screen and I decided to perform a restore on it, however restore didnt even proceed 10% before iTunes had an error saying that my iphone could not be restored (an unknown error occurred). Now the phone seems to be stuck in recovery mode. This makes me very sad, and any advice offered would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

I would take it into an Apple Retail store and have them look at it. Also, they would be able to tell you if you are within 1st year of harware warranty too.

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