IMessage on iPhone 3Gs being used as an ipod

I have an issue. I upgraded to the 4Gs, gave my wife my Phone 4 and plan to use her old 3Gs as an iPod touch for my son. Here's the issue I'm running into. I created an iCloud email for my son on order to use iMessage for free texting. The 3Gs which has been upgraded to ios 5 still shows my wife's phone number as an option to receive iMessages at. Obviously this is a problem because if I send a text to my wife or my son it goes to BOTH phones. I'be removed the sim card from. The 3Gs and even deleted the phone number from the 3Gs but it does not remove her phone number. You also cannot delete her phone number in the iMessage options for receiving texts.
Will I have to set the phone up as new in order to correct this issue?

anil024 wrote:
I fixed this issue. I was using an iPhone 4, recently switched to a Windows phone. However, all incoming texts sent by my family/friends who use iPhones were still being sent as iMessages despite sending them as texts to my phone number. I noticed that my phone number was still a part of my iPhone although I changed it. I spent about 2 hours first with ATT support then with Apple support but no luck. I was told to basically restore my iphone to default settings(which means i have to lose all data). But I took my chances & tried the following which fixed the issue.
1. Go to Settings-->Messages-->Send & Receive-->sign out of your Apple ID
2. Back in Settings-->Messages, turned off the iMessage.
3. Go to Settings-->Facetime, signed out of your Apple ID.
4. Back in Settings-->Facetime, turned off the Facetime.
5. Now go to Settings-->General-->Reset-->Reset all settings-->confirm it.
Now it will reset all settings in your iPhone ( it WILL NOT delete any data). Now turn off the phone & power it back on. Now go back to settings & turn on iMessage, log in with your Apple ID & repeat the same with Facetime as well. You will now receive text messages to your new phone. People can iMessage when they send it to your email associated with your iPhone. Hope this helps. If anyone from Apple support is reading this post, please share it amongst your team.
Just went through these steps and they worked PERFECTLY! Thank you!

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