Why does my iPhone 4S ios7 sometimes brick even though it has battery life?

I know it sounds weird, but I have had this problem more than a few times since I upgraded my 4S to iOS 7. It will be working just fine, and then it will die. Kaput. Nada. Dead
It just did it within the past few hours. It was registering a 70% charge while I was taking pictures, and then it suddenly just bricked on me. I put it back on an AC charger as soon as I could (actually, the closest one was the one for my iPad Air), but it wouldn't even acknowledge that it was on the charger. No beep. No vibration. Nothing. I let it sit for about 10-15 minutes and then finally just held the power button down, and eventually after about a minute the bleeping thing gave me a white apple screen. FINALLY!! When the Apple screen went away, I looked at my home screen, and the battery was down to 40%. Really?? I didn't do anything!! It was freaking dead!!
Am I the only one with a psycho phone? Please, someone, say I'm not alone.

I usually hear about this when the user has done an over-the-air iOS update. The only way to back out of it is through a firmware update or "DFU."
Connect to a computer with internet access and the latest version of iTunes. Perform a backup first and you should be able to restore from the backup after DFU.
Press and hold both the sleep/wake button and the home button for ten seconds.
After ten seconds, continue holding the home button, but let go of the sleep/wake button.
The iPhone should go dark and you should see a popup on the computer. It should say, "iTunes has detected a device in Recovery Mode. . ." If there is no popup and the iPhone shows the Apple logo, you can immedeately try again. It often takes an experienced user two or three attempts before the device successfully enters recovery mode.
Follow all of the popups and a new version of iOS will be installed. If your issue was firmware, you should feel free to restore from the backup. If the issue returns, that means it was a software issue. In that case, you'll need to do another DFU and restore the iPhone as a new device.

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