How do i get past "waiting for activation" on iphone 3 ?!?!

i've been trying since last night to get it working. my cousin gave me her old iphone 3 to use as an itouch and i am trying to get imessage to work, but it won't stop saying "waiting for activation". i've tried everything, i've tried veryfying my email multiple times, turning it on and off, using a different email, made an icloud email. please help :/

You need to have a SIM in the phone to activate it. The SIM does not need to be one that is currently active.

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