Nano turns itself on?

I've been trying to help my mom deal with her new Nano and we've had a few problems. Most I've been able to resolve thanks to dealing with my own iPod. But now her nano has started turning itself on. This is even after having turned it off by using the play/pause button and putting the hold button on. I'm really stuck on what to do. Initially we'd thought there was something wrong with her battry but now it seems it is these sessions of "random on" play time. Anyway, any solutions for this problem or reasons for causing it? I've tried resetting it several times and the nano has the current iPod firmware... I don't know. Thanks in advance for any help.

I will check the extra stuff. Honestly, I don't see any alarms set and the timing of it turning on seemed to be almost random. I hope that is the only issue. As I said, it's my mom's so I'm only able to look at it when she's not using it and I can't always see if it's come on, been shut off properly, etc. But I do know for a fact that it turned itself on when I had turned if off properly. Anyway, thanks for the help. Hopefully it's something simple I've overlooked.

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