How can I stop my iPhone from randomly, persistently, making a noise it should not be making?

This has been happening for about 1-2 months.
My iPhone makes a sound which is a normal iOS sound, but without any reason for it to be making the sound. It happens randomly, perhaps 1 day per week although when it happens it happens several times in the same day usually, even after quitting all apps / processes and restarting.
As you can imagine it's not very easy to describe the sound.
I do have a lot of apps, but there is free space and I'm rarely using more than Safari and/or Mail when it happens. Often it happens when I am just charging or not using the iPhone and there does not seem to be a correlation with power.
I have tried restarting the springboard and I have tried restoring from prior states. I have also upgraded the software several times since the first time I had this problem. There are no other problems except for some freezing on occassion.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!!
- J
PS It's a Verizon iPhone 4, 16GB, with the most recent iOS and carrier settings installed, WiFi + 3G

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