IMessage Activation

I can't activate iMessage.  I sign in with my Apple ID, but I always get the message:
"Could not sign in.  Please check your internet connection and try again."
AND I HAVE A STRONG INTERNET CONNECTION!!!
A little help?

I tried everything everyone else had ever listed, including a full reset and restore as a NEW phone all to no avail.
As a last ditch attempt, I changed the password on my iCloud account, which was 32 characters long and made it 24. imessage activated instantaneously. Hallelujah and all that jazz.
Changing the password was easy.
Don't as me why but it did. All the other fixes with reboots, resets, airplane mode, time settings,DNS servers, logging in and out etc failed.
I realized that in my case, there was something amiss with the iCloud account because the problem with iMessage activating occurred either on wifi alone (in Airplane mode) or using cellular alone, so it could not be the carrier/network issues. The hard reset/restore as new phone told me it was probably not the phone software. I was about to go to Apple and ask for a new phone under Apple care. This was weird because I could easily log into iCloud with the original long 32 character password.
Hope this adds some help to all you frustrated people.
My solution probably will not work unless you have reason to think your iCloud account is amiss in some way - as noted above

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    Good Day,
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