Ipod nano 6th Gen, Turning on Randomly

I bought an ipod nano red 16gb, probably 4 months ago. In the last few weeks, It keeps turning on randomly. Like i will hold the pause button and it will turn off, then in a variable amount of time, it will randomly turn on again.. What's the go?
I just watched it sitting on my computer desk turned off, and it randomly turned back on, noticing it's starting to get more frequent.
If you have any suggestions that would be very much appreciated.
Cheers,
Adam.

The sleep button has 2 functions:
- press the button briefly to switch the screen off and lock it
- press the button for 3 seconds to put it into Sleep mode (this stops the music and switches the iPod off)
Have you been holding the button down too long?
Or did you spill something sticky on the iPod that got into the button?

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