Imessage for iphone 4s

My iphone 4s imessage cannot be activated. It slid to the right and showed green but the status kept saying: waiting for activation. What is wrong and how do I fix this? Thanks.

It has my head scratching.....it works for message balloon, phone and facetime apps, I can text to anyones now not before but the imessage and facetime apps in setting show green (On) still say "Activation Unsuccessfull. Turn on imessage to try again". What's going on? I'm afraid of turning imessage button to off and on again to activate it, it may screw up and it never work again. I'm going to leave it alone. The olds said " it ain't broken don't fix it"....

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