Ipod wont sleep

I have the ipod video and normally i can just go to the main menu before now playing and hit sleep but it doesn't do anything (white button works for everythign else) and when i hold the play button down it normally shuts off but thats not working either... any ideas?? my battery keeps dying. thanks

Mine used to do the same thing, but eventually I had to reset it and resync everything back to it. It's a pain in the butt, but it worked.

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