I have an iPhone 5 and updated it to iOS7 but now I can't use iMessage or FaceTime as it says "waiting for activation" and won't let me use my phone number to do iMessage or FaceTime either

I have an iPhone 5 and updated it to iOS7 last night but now I can't use iMessage or FaceTime as it says "waiting for activation" As well as that, it won't let me use my phone number to do iMessage or FaceTime it will only let me use my apple ID which I don't want to do.

Thank you for replying. Yes I deleted the old email address..

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4268

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Hi,
My imessage isnt working so I turned off imessage and now its been saying "waiting for activation" and has been for a long while now? Also saying that my apple ID password is inccorrect when its not! Can anyone help me?
Thanks

While we all have MacBooks in this forum most of us don’t have Lion. There's a Lion Support Community where everybody has Lion.You should also post this question there. https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.7_lion

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http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

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Hey tavz91,
If you are getting an error when attempting to use FaceTime, I would suggest that you troubleshoot using the steps in this article -
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Happy computing,
Brett L

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If you get an error when trying to activate iMessage or FaceTime - Apple Support
Per the link if it has been more than 24 hours you will need to contact Apple support.
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I had the same problem. To fix this I simply turned of facetime and massages and reset my network settings.
To do that General>Reset>Reset Network Settings.
Hope this helps.

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Kyle Caldwell wrote:
So..any suggestions? Just to note, it is definitely without a doubt sim free and unlocked to all networks.
Thanks in advance.
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However iTunes itself is a 32 bit program that will run on XP64 if you can get it installed. however this requires some hacking. Here are some links, you may be able to find others.
http://yukichigai.googlepages.com/iphonex64
http://skunkwerks.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/getting-itunes-to-work-with-windows-x p-x64/
I haven't tried any of this myself.

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