Help! Phone screen is frozen. Won't turn off, can't answer calls--nothing. Troubleshooting ideas?

I have an iPhone 5 that is frozen due to a suspected bug from an app (US magazine app). I can't use the phone at all, not even to hits"quit" or "continue" to exit out of the warning screen. Ideas, please?

JRno6 wrote:
... Ideas, please?
The Basic Troubleshooting Steps are:
Restart... Reset... Restore from Backup...  Restore as New...
Restart / Reset
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
Backing up, Updating and Restoring
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

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