Cannot sign in to iMessage and Facetime with Apple ID (only one or the other)

Hi
I have an iPhone 5 running the latest iOS (on AT&T), not jailbroken.
I have recently got family to use Facetime and have been using it more and have noticed I am unable to use my Apple ID for both Facetime and iMessage- if I am signed in to one of them, I am 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...
Anyone else had this problem? Anyone solved it?

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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