iphone 4. restart freeze flash to lock screen restart freeze repeat

iPhone 4. Restart and freeze, flash to lock screen and restart and freeze and repeat
location: macrumors.com - date: March 2, 2012
Last night I was charging my phone and something strange happened. About 9 pm I plug it in at 11% battery. Around midnight it looks like I got a text, and the screen lit up and I ignored it. A few minutes later it happens again anda I go over there to turn my phone upside down so it won't wake me up. I see the scariest thing, it is on the shutdown screen, the spinning wheel, but it's frozen. It would freeze for a few seconds and then would continue to spin and then show the lock screen like it just rebooted.... For about 2 seconds and it would go back to spinny gear. In a panic I did a google search and only got results really about faulty batteries, so I plugged it back into the wall (I unplugged it when I saw it kept freezing and spinning). It vibrated to show it was charging, eventually got to the homescreen and then it went back to the freezing spinny wheel. It would get stuck, then about halfway through it would vibrate again to show it wa
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