Why is my iphone screen turning black with the apple symbol?

My iPhone 3GS has been randomly blacking out to the screen with the apple symbol or just a blank white screen and will remain frozen like that.  I have reset it pressing the home and power button but most times the screen returns to the apple symbol and the phone does not load.  A few times the screen has just been showing random html code when I reset it.  Sometimes it gets back to my log-in screen but then kicks me back out.

Is your phone by chance jailbroken? If not then you may have to make a genius appointment and have them check it out. Also try restoring the phone as a new phone and see if that fixes the problem.

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