IMessage will NOT activate, even AFTER complete iPhone restore.. PLEASE HELP!

For the last couple of days I have had problems with my iMessage playing up. For the last two days however, it's completely stopped working. Previously used to work fine! Actions I have ALREADY undertaken to try and fix iMessage always resorting in some kind of error message (i.e. an error has occurred, or activation unsuccessful).
Specs: iPhone 5s, 16gb. Runing: iOS 8.0.2. Based in Australia.
Turning both Facetime and iMessage off, hard resetting iPhone and trying to activate them again
Turning Facetime and iMessage off, resetting NETWORK settings and trying to activate iMessage again
FULL restore of iPhone through itunes and restoring contents from backup, still didn't work.
Changing DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4. Tried to activate both via cellular network and wifi.
Let 'waiting for activation' overnight knowing sometimes activation takes up to 24 hours.
Checked time and date settings - they are set to automatic
EVERYTHING. Please understand there is nothing I have not tried, searching through hundreds of Apple threads.
After all of these tries I can only get to iMessage 'waiting for activation' where my email is ticked but won't work to send a message and my number is greyed out. That's the furthest I've gotten with no prevail.
Can some iPhone GENIUS please help!! I'm officially through trying it all!

UPDATE:
Make sure that in 'mail, contacts & calendars' that under 'contacts' you have valid information in put for who you are (save your number in your phone and select it from your contacts menu to ensure that your iPhone has your details).
After days of not knowing, also exhausting all the possible steps, I decided to go as far as 'waiting for activation' and just leave my phone. It happened to be overnight.
I had 'no addresses' in the 'send and receive' category selected (I deselected my email address) and after about 8-9 hours, basically by morning - iMessage activated itself, checking my phone number and sending and receiving iMessages as per usual!
Yes, that's right - what I'm saying is if you've tried EVERYTHING like I honestly had, try the waiting game. It worked for me, I really hope it works for all of you too!
Martha.

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