FaceTime no longer wotking on my iPhone 4 (GSM) iOS 6.1.4

Hello everyone,
My last successful FaceTime call was made on August 31, 2013.
When I tried to answer / initiate a FaceTime call to a family member over the weekend, I discovered that FT would attempt to connect, but fail to complete.
I have since discovered that several thousand people are having this same problem with iPhone 4 -- there is a discussion group about this problem in the apple "using iPhone" forum at this time, and that it may have something to do with the way Apple has changed the way in which FaceTime traffic is handled.
I have a question -- many folks have tried an "erase all content and settings" followed by a "setup device as a new phone" to restore FaceTime functionality,
It seems that simply updating from iOS 6 to iOS 7 by itself doesn't solve this problem, and that any attempt to restore   backup simply installs the problem once again -- it appears to only be solved via the method that I mentioned.
I have a question, if I attempt to do this on my iPhone (without iTunes, since I can only utilize iTunes 10.6.3 on my Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.5.8), will this corrupt any information on my SIM card?
Has anyone else encountered this problem with FaceTime on their iPhone 4 (GSM) and attempted this solution?
Thanks in advance,
Bill

varunsharmaapplefan
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5209 might help you.  An iPhone 4 can airplay content from apps that support airplay and iTunes but it cannot mirror.  If your game does not have airplay in the app you cannot mirror it to the apple TV so I don't know if you can play just the music.  You should have no problem playing your iTunes over airplay though.
This may also help http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4437
Regards
Jules 

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