I cant get my imessage or my facetime to activate on my iphone 5.

every time i try to activate them it will say waiting for activation then after a min or so itll tell me activation unsuccessful. any idea of what might be wrong or how to fix it ?

I have had that problem since last week Wednesday, it would say "waiting for activation" for hours and then would fail... so I thought I will share what worked for me... After going through the forums for days and trying everything I could to get my iMessage to activate on my mobile number, I restored it twice, hard reset, toggled all possible options and nothing worked... I was eventually convinced that it must be an Apple server problem.
Last night I logged out of my Apple ID on the phone, I switched off iMessage, I switched Cellular Data off and put my phone on Airplane mode (which is all a kind of combination I read in the forums). I went to sleep, this morning I switched Airplane mode off, switched Cellular Data back on, left it for about an hour and then turned my iMessage on, it activated almost instantaneously.
Whether there was a server problem which was coincidentally fixed before I turned my iMessage back on this morning, I don't know... but hopefully this will work for you!

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