Iphone 4, ios5 upgraded, issues with iMessaging.....activation unsucessful, no associated telephone number, just email.

1. upgraded to ios5
2. activated iMessaging
3. get message saying carrier may charge for activation texts - never received these - no matter how many times i try to activate
4. keeps saying activation unsuccesful
5. allows me tho, to sign in with apple id
6. recipients receive iMessages in their text inbox but from my email address
7. if i sign out of apple id cannot use iMessages
8. iMessages has defaulted to email address, not telephone number as it should
9. if i try to add another email adress it will alow me but there is nowhere anywhere at all for caller id
10. i cant delete that email adress as it is the primary one that im signed in with as my apple id
11. i have done a hard restore, ive turned all my notifications, imessaging, face time off then turned phone off and on again....
12. considering a restore thru itunes
13. also considering a DFU
14. and finally considering flushing the bloody thing!!
can anyone help?

iMessage is a strange one for me too...
When I first activated it, it would not show up texts I sent or rcvd on both my iPhone and iPad.. just iPhone... I played with this for a long time before changing the "Caller ID" setting from within iMessage settings... NOT the one in the phone settings...
After I chose to use the email (Apple ID) assigned to iMessage the syncing worked! this doesn't change the fact that my regular phone number shows up to non iOS5 devices I text... very strange for me too...
it does work however I had to change that setting in order to get it to work...
As for cant activate... I had that issue at first but after first day it worked fine...perhaps network lag or iMessage lag due to too many users in at once...

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Hi all, sorry if this thread is a duplicate of another, I've seen some that are similar but none seem to match the exact situation I'm having.
Me and 3 other friends have a group iMessages thread where we talk to each other.
We each have several devices: ie. I have a Macbook Air and an iPhone 5S, one has a Macbook, an iPhone 4, and an iPad, etc etc. Essentially we all have a mix of devices which we can use to read the thread, all using the same Apple ID and with our phone number added.
The problem is, every so often and for no discernible reason, someone will send a message and it'll start a new thread: this usually happens on my iPhone but occasionally it happens on my Macbook. Sometimes, what has become 2 threads on my phone will be only one thread on my Macbook, and vice versa. Same applies to my friends. However, sometimes what has become 2 threads for them is still only one thread for someone else, as though some of us have gone "out of sync".
When you compare the contacts in the 2 threads, they are IDENTICAL (can't stress this enough, the contacts themselves have not been duplicated), however when I look at the same contact from one thread, their phone number will be highlighted in blue. In the other thread, their email address will be highlighted in blue.
Therefore the problem seems to be that devices are unable to bring together an iMessage sent from a contact's phone with one sent from their email. If the information for both email and phone number are correctly filled in for a contact, why can Messages/iMessage not realise it is the same person and bring them together?
The problem is, sometimes a message sent from the same device will first be sent from the phone number, then the next will be from the email address (or rather, everyone else's devices are seeing it that way, they're not doing anything different than usual, just typing in the thread and pressing send). Its as though the device is choosing one then the other, seemingly at random, and iMessage doesn't seem to be able to add them to the already existing thread but instead creates a new one as the "source' is different. Is this behaviour intended? Surely it can't be.
Is this something to do with the "You can be reached by iMessage at" setting in iOS. One of us needs to be reached by both his email and phone number so we can't just all turn off the email on our phones/iPads for example.
Is this a known problem? Is there something we can do about it? Is it ever going to be fixed?
We've tried other messaging programs but they're just not as well integrated as Messages, and obviously being able to switch between my phone and my Macbook is hugely convenient.
Any help would be much appreciated, we're now at the stage where we have 2 iMessage threads and a backup LINE group chat for when things are completely unfollowable due to every other message going to the duplicate thread.
Thanks in advance.

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When you send and receive messages to and from other iPhone users who’ve also got iMessage activated, they’re sent and delivered over the internet as iMessages rather than as SMS
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If you’ve got access to your iPhone
Ensure your phone is connected to the internet (3G or Wi-Fi) so that the changes will sync with your Apple ID.
Go into ‘Settings’.
Tap ‘Messages’.
For ‘iMessage’, move the slider to ‘Off’.
If you don’t have access to your iPhone
Go to supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do.
Log in with your Apple ID and password.
Select the product you need to de-register (your iPhone, for example).
Click ‘Unregister’.
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Hello! Like many other people, I am having issues with iMessage. I have an iPhone 5.
It was working before, but sporadically. I would be able to send something as an iMessage, but the next day it would switch to text messaging, even though I have SMS/MMS/etc. turned off. Currently, it's telling me it's "waiting for activation" and that there's an error everytime I try and reactivate identities.
I am currently in Turkey with all cellular data turned off (I will not be returning Stateside until end of June), but I do have access to wifi (which is what I've been using). I've tried a lot of the google fixes already (using it in airplane mode, doing a full reset of the phone, etc.), but nothing I do seems to work. It was activated before I left the US.
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Hi, I am in Australia and olso had this issue with iMessage.
I found the following procedure fixed it.
On all my devices supporting iMessage, i did the following.
Setting -> messages -> send & receive - > use your apple id -> sign out.
then
settings -> messages -> Turn "iMessage" off
settings -> Facetime -> Turn "FaceTime" off
on my phone (where I had the original issue)
ettings -> messages -> Turned "iMessage" on
waited two minutes for it to Verify and activate.
I was then ablle to send iMessages from my phone, using my phone number as the orginating address.
I then signed back in using my Apple id, and it was all good ;-)
Setting -> messages -> send & receive - > use your apple id ....
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Is anybody else having the issue with iMessages or text messages, when you go back to the list of contacts… The search bar for messages shows it halfway every time?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2755
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For what ever reason, some devices lose track of the date. In my case, apparently, my daughters change the date to affect a particular game by advancing the date. Little cheaters. (LOL)
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Well, let take the personal service point of view : let say, I had two calendars on my iCloud account : one for work, one for my leisure activities.
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Why would Apple give us the opportunity to hide some calendars on certain devices but not allow us, on these same devices, to switch off the alerts linked to these calendars that we have chosen to hide ? Why having alerts of calendars that do not even show on these devices ?
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While logged in as Guest, you won’t have access to any of your personal files or settings. Applications will behave as if you were running them for the first time. Don’t be alarmed by this; it’s normal. If you need any passwords or other personal data in order to complete the test, memorize, print, or write them down before you begin.
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After testing, log out of the guest account and, in your own account, disable it if you wish. Any files you created in the guest account will be deleted automatically when you log out of it.
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