Can't sign in to iMessage and Facetime with my Apple ID, only one or the other

I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 6.1.2 on AT&T.
I've noticed I am unable to use my Apple ID for both Facetime and  iMessage; if I am signed in to one of them, I'm unable to sign in to the  other. I get in a loop of the phone repeatedly popping up a password  entry screen for the Apple ID.
If I cancel the process and sign out of either, I can successfully sign  in to the other. But no matter which I sign into first, I cannot sign in  to both at the same time. >__< It's working fine on my other iDevices (iPad 1, iPhone 4), this is the only one having the issue. The issue has been happening since my purchase of the iPhone 5 last year.
Any ideas on a fix? It's driving me nuts. I've even just restored my phone and still receiving the exact same issue. Thanks in advance for any help as I am at a loss. ;(

I THINK I might have found out a fix. First, I went in and signed into iMessages, but left Facetime logged out. I then went in Settings and turned off FaceTime altoghter. Afterwards I went to ensure iMessages was still signed in (Paranoia perhaps lol). Then I went back in and re-enabled FaceTime. The information was inserted back in, but Caller ID for Facetime was unchecked, so I selected my email address instead of phone. And both have oddly been working fine and stayed signed in since. No password requests at all.
I have zero clue why this works, but it does. I only figured it out thanks to obcessive behavoir and inablilty to accept it was broken lol. Anyone else with the issue want to confirm if it works for them as well?

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