Iphone won't turn off and keeps turning on..

About a couple of weeks ago I noticed that my Iphone (not3g) was randomly turning on by itself to the start screen, and would stay on for about 10 seconds. Also, it randomly turns on with the "This accessory is not made to work with the iPhone" message. This quickly drains the battery. Also, I can't shut my phone down. When i do the Slide to Power Off, it just restarts. I have already tried a restore and that didn't work either. Any suggestions?

Tried that too and after fiddling with it literally all morning, it seems to be fixed. The last two things I did were to delete all of my applications, resync (not reinstalling any applications) and used canned air to blow out both the cord connections slot and the earphone plug opening (of course I did this last night too, without any results). Now my phone is working again. I can shut it off, it doesn't wake itself up every few minutes and I'm not getting the airport error message. Fingers crossed that this holds...I may try to reinstall one app at a time (maybe one per day) and see if I can isolate the app that I'm assuming is causing the problem.

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