Iphone 4s screen is frozen

help.  My new iphone 4s screen is frozen. 

I'm experiencing the same problem.
Twice now, my iPhone 4S was in a sort of "deep sleep" mode and has had a screen that would not wake up.
Underneath the blank and black screen, the phone itself seems to be working as I tried calling my iPhone from another phone, but my 4S still did not wake up, nor did it sound the ringtone.
By holding the on/off key and the home button for about 10 seconds, the phone started again (Apple logo) and asked for my passcode. Funny enough, it did NOT ask me for my PIN number to unlock the SIM card (which it normally does when I reboot my iPhone), so somehow that part of the phone has remained active.
As I said, this happened twice to me, both before and after the 5.1.1 update, so that doesn't seem to have anything to do with it.
The bad thing of course is that I don't know when my iPhone does into some kind of "deep sleep" mode, so when somebody tries to call me I'm unreachable, yet the other person trying to call me simply thinks I'm ignoring his call.

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