IPhone 4 keeps waking itself up

I tether my phone to my laptop for the laptop's internet connection. No problem there. The problem arises when I unplug the phone from the laptop and take it into town. I put it to sleep (if that's what it's called) by pushing and holding the button on the top outer edge. To "wake" it back up I hit the home button and "slide to unlock" - all as it should be.
Trouble is, the phone keeps waking up all by itself. At first I thought it might be because it was jiggled in my pocket - or an e-mail came in - or something but then it was sitting on a table at a friend's and woke itself up over and over and over. We all (3 of us) watched in fascination.
Does anyone have ANY idea what is causing this? I've been to both my service provider (Rogers) and the local Mac store which also sells the phones. Both are baffled. It's driving me nuts! Sometimes the iPod starts playing too, all by itself. Rogers tech support had me fiddled with some settings but it didn't help. :>(

Thought I'd better report back on this issue, in case others encounter the same problem. I ended up not resetting the phone the next day because the phone behaved itself the whole time I was in town. However, I've figured out what the problem was (I hope).
On a trip back from the coast during a blizzard my phone started going REALLY nuts, not only turning itself on but disconnecting from Bluetooth over and over. Then it was fine for a few days. Then it started acting up again. It finally dawned on me what the problem could be.
I have a Bluetooth keyboard which I pack around in a bag (I hate typing on the iPhone keyboard) and I'm almost positive that is what is creating the problem. My first clue was after I got home through the blizzard. I noticed that there was a text message open and contained one character typed over and over and over. After something similar happening yesterday I think that what's waking up the phone is the keyboard, similar to when a phone call comes in. The keyboard starts typing (from pressure of something in the bag), so the phone thinks it's supposed to be awake and working. If I either turn off Bluetooth on the phone or get far enough away from the keyboard, the phone behaves.

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