Q: ipad 4th gen restarting issue

My ipad has recently gone crazy, constantly restarting itself over and over until I can finally be fast enough to turn it off myself before it restarts itself again.

It is a 4th gen and I haven't downloaded anything new. Once I can get the ipad back on, the restarting issue seems to calm down until I go into the general settings and try to update my ipad to keep this from happening. I've tried to reset the ipad but this sends it back into restarting as well.

I even tried to connect it to my laptop to try and update via itunes but it sends it into restarting again as well.

I feel sad because its out of warranty and I feel like this is Apples fault with their latest ios 8 and if all solutions fail that probably means I have to trade it for a new one.

Is anyone else going through this nightmare?