IPhone 4s won't power down

Recently I have noticed that my iphone will not power down. I go to turn it off and it goes through the process of shutting itself down and then after two seconds magically turns itself back on again. After this happening several times I have tried pretty much everything to fix it. I have tried resetting the settings, deleting data and settings, full restore and cleaned out the charging port but all to no avail. The problem continues. Has anyone actually had this problem fixed? Would be nice to be able to power my phone off, especially with filights to catch in the near future.

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