Why won't my iphone let me activate my imessages under message settings?

cannot receive text messages. says its waiting for activation, but when I type in my Apple ID password it won't connect. I have tried resetting, and turning it off. This happened after I updated to the new iOS 7 software.

This happened to my daughter. She is away at college so I couldn't work on her phone. She met with the Genius today at the Apple store and he said it is a "glitch" that has happened to some users when updating to iOS 7. I know it didn't happen to me. He told her she would have to restore the device as new and then resync data. I'm not so sure I agree with that, and she doesn't either, so she is going to wait until the weekend for me to come and look at her phone and see if I can find an alternative.

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