IMessage doesn't work across multiple devices

I updated my iPad mini and my iPhone 4S to iOS 6.1 and now iMessage no longer works across both devices. When my friends text my phone, it doesn't show up on their chat box on my iPad mini. If they message my iPad mini through my email, it doesn't show up on my iPhone. Please help, thanks!

Nikki
Under settings my iPad Mini (running on IOS 6.1) is showing the following:
Settings> Messages>Send and Receive>  Iphone number and three email addresses... exactly the same as my Iphone 4 running IOS 6.
It's not an IOS 6 issue.
1. Try reset of your iPadmini - hold the off/on and home button until it goes black and release whrn you get to the Apple icon.  Log back in and see if you can enter your number in iMessage.
2. Try disabling imessage on your Iphone and then enabling it
  Then go to your ipad mini and do the same.
Let us know what happens.
Cheers

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