Facetime will not activate on my iphone 5. Screen says "waiting to activate". Tried turning it off then on to no avail. I'm on wifi.
Facetime will not activate on my iphone 5. Screen says "waiting to activate". Tried turning it off then on to no avail. I'm on wifi.
That was the first thing I tried and all that happened was it took a picture of the screen (I saw that in my photos folder when the phone finally came back to life).
I tried again with syncing it in itunes and it took a while but eventually it kinda reset itself and I did have to redo the set up again but it's working fine now.
And surprisinly none of my data/pictures was lost which was odd as I heard that doing the restore would delete it all.
Thankfully it's sorted out now. Was really worried for a second that something was seriously wrong. I've only had this phone for 3 months so it would have been awful having to pay for a replacement.
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