How to unlink iMessage from phone number?

I recently switched over from iPhone 4 to a Samsung Galaxy S4. I used the iPhone for 2 years with iMessage on. I no longer use the iPhone. I turned off iMessage on my iPhone, I unregistered the iPhone from my Apple account. However my friends and family that own an iPhone with iMessage turned on, everytime they text my number...my new phone doesn't receive the text message. It still shows that my number is iMessage capable with the blue bubbles. And that is weird because I own an Android device now. How do I fix this issue? It's really annoying and I can't receive any texts from those people with iPhones.

i just changed from iphone to android as well and dont' get iphone users messages as they still 'see' me as a imsg'er..my husband is still an iphone user and we both would sync our phones into the icloud..apple service got me to delete my account from itunes but it still doesn't work. i am dumbfounded as what to do now. everything is deleted on phone, mac but still no msg's..any ideas?

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I have had my iPhone 4S for nearly two years now and it has worked beautifully.
Until today.
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From your post I understand that your phone number is not checked and also is grayed out in your Messages settings on the iPhone. To start with, your phone number will always appear grayed out on your iPhone. In order to get it checked in order for you to be able to send from the the phone number, I'd like you to simply turn iMessage off, and then back on.
tap Settings > Messages and turn iMessage off.
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