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Iphone 5 "Waiting for activation" driving me crazy!

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Ok this is complicated (or not) my daughter got an Iphone 6 so she gave me her iphone 5 (she is paymonthly) I am pay as you go - i transfered my number over from my sim i had in my glalaxy 3 to the a nano sim and put the nano sim in the iphone - here in lies the problem - I can face time, i can accept calls, i can text my hubby (who is an iphone user) I can text my daughter (Iphone 6 user) I cant text my son he has a samsung 6 - but I can recevie texts - i have tried every possible scenario, spoke to O2 via chat, they said take it to the shop, phoned the shop they told me to change the message centre number, reset the whole phone back to factory settings, followed every possible website/google instruction i could find - it still wont work.

The imessage under settings says waiting on activation, NOW here is the funny thing I took the sim out and put it back in my old Samsung 3 to see if i could just revert back to using my samsung and same problem now with the samsung cant send messages at all to anyone iphone user or not!!! any advice folks... its driving me mad i have spent hours trying to find the cause... thanks

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jonsie
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Unless you have the right sim card, the settings will revert if you reboot the phone.

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I'd suggest you do another sim swap to a PAYG sim or else you will be forever resetting the message centre number.
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