IPhone 4 won't update email or send texts

My iPhone 4 won't update my email, send texts or show my call log.  Restarting hasn't helped

Update (for anyone else who has had this problem):
A few days ago, my iPhone decided to get its act together and fixed itself.
I had seen some indications out there in researching this that if you just give it time, it will correct itself.
Low and behold, after checking in on it every couple days, it finally started downloading and updating correctly.
I don't know that I can really offer anything to do or not do.
All I did was just not worry about downloading new apps, or updating the current ones.
Didn't sync with iTunes/Outlook, and just used the phone in the condition it was in.
After several days, it went back to normal.
I have several educated guesses on what may have caused it, but nothing at all definitive.
Anyhow, there you are: apparently the solution is to do nothing, and let the iPhone sort out its own problems.

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