Activation Unsuccessful and waiting (iMessage and FaceTime) on an iPhone 4s.

My iPhone 4s is fully up to date. I have had it around 6 months and generally has been good.
Unfortunately today I could not send a picture through iMessage (I was at home using the wifi at the time), so i proceded to turn it off and back on again. This then lead to me looking at iMessage and it would not turn on.
Firstly it said Activation unsccessful and after turning it on and off it now says that it is waiting. I have restored all netwrok settings and done various other things suggested such as checking my number is correct and the time zone is set automatically.
After all this I still had no use, so I looked at my facetime, turned it on and off, and now I have lost that too. I can send SMS's and recieve them. I can also recieve calls, but I have now got no iMessege and FaceTime which is very annoying.
If anyone has an further ideas of what to try, I'd be most greatful.

Hi you guys,four days ago my FT and iMessage worked well on my iPhone 5 IOS6.1.3,but my phone Number did not in the caller ID loop,so I turned both of them off,when I wanted to turn it on again,but failed,I tried so many times,but make no difference,It shows me"waiting for activation".Then I found the solution on internet,and you know there are many possible solutions,just like:
1.change the wifi DNS to 8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4.and you must turn your cellular ON.
2.restore the phone setting.Settings>>General>>reset>>all the phone setting.
3.restore the network setting.Setting>>General>>reset>>the network setting.
3.reset the network.
4.reset your Date&time.Setting>>Date&Time>>set automaticlly>>ON.
5.change another network to activate.
6.take out the sim card to activate.
I did everything,but nothing happend,it still"waiting for activation"
And today afternoon,i try to activate again,when i turn iMessage on,it activate successfully.OMG,it is really amazing.and the same to my Facetime.
I am so exciting and strange how it happen...
I followed all the setting above 1.2.3.4.5.6,the only difference is i turned the "enable 3G" OFF(Settings>>General>>Cellular Data>>Enable 3G>>OFF),but it keep ON before now.
seriously,i am not sure if the "enable 3G"causes this problem,but it really happened to me,so you guys can try if you have the same problem,
hope my answer if helpful for you.

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