IPhone 5 not receiving messages

My phone sporadically stops receiving iMessage and SMS ever since the iOS8 update. I now have iOS8.1 and still have the same problem. I have to constantly restart my phone using the lock screen and home button. Please help. This is important because I am not receiving very important messages when I should be.

Hey Karly,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like there’s an issue receiving text messages on your iPhone 5 since upgrading iOS, which I image would be very frustrating. Take a look at the article linked below, it provides a lot of great troubleshooting tips that’ll resolve issues receiving messages on iOS devices.
iOS: Troubleshooting Messages - Apple Support
I hope this helps,
-Jason

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          Hi,
          I have a problem with stand alone asynchronous subscriber.The asynchronous subscriber
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          venkat


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          > If that is the case say ,I have a publisher publishing messages to a topic and
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          I think WL JMS has had this behavior since version 4.51? At
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          > Tom Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
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          >>The code you posted has nothing to stop the "main" from returning, which
          >>would cause the program to exit as soon as its finished
          >>setting up its subscription. This is expected behavior.
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          >>If the program works on other JMS vendors, then they
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          >>venkat wrote:
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          >>>Hi,
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          >>>Venkat
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          >>>Tom Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
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