Why does an error occur during activation of iMessage?

Everytime I try turn on my iMessage/ Facetime a message pops up saying "iMessage Activation: An error has occurred during activation. Try again." This has been happening for a day already and I literally have tried eveything I know of. I tried: Restarting my phone, turning off cellular data/ 3G, re-entering my apple ID and password, restarting all the settings on my iphone, and none of this has fixed the problem. I was thinking the problem was with my apple ID but i was able to sign into the communities. If anyone knows anythng else I could try please help me out, it would be greatly appreciated. thanks!

Following is the "official" document that may have something you haven't tried: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4268

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