Ichat is stuck on "waiting for activation" as is FaceTime on my new iPhone 5. Any tips??

Both initially worked on the phone after being stuck in Restore mode for 2 weeks. Multiple SIM card failures and now iChat and FaceTime no longer will work? Any thoughts???

I live in Costa Rica, I have an iPhone 5, updated to iOs 8, deactivated iMessage to enable sms on Yosemite.  Anyway, reactivated iMessage and it just says Waiting for activation, and I get strange international SMS's every 1-3 hours.  Seems like the iPhone doesn't recognize these activation SMS's.  Tried everything I have found: resetting, restoring, etc.   Please help.

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    sumankumar wrote:
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    Please help

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