My iPhone 5 keeps on asking for activation....

All the time it does this, and it's searching for service the whole time and all of a sudden the Apple logo appears and wants to be activated and I've activated it lots of times, but keeps on coming. Is is because i'm running iOS 8.0.2?!! Sick of this, HELP!!!

ARMartinez0984USN wrote:
My iPhone 5 also started doing this since updating to IOS 8.0.0, it asks for activation at least three times a day and says "searching" for signal A LOT, it even drops my calls. This is ridiculous! I can only use WiFi to activate, it will not allow me to use my LTE to activate, if I'm not around WiFi I can't activate my phone. Please fix this issue I've been on the phone with Verizon seems to be an iPhone issue not a Verizon issue.
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