imessage stuck on waiting for activation

[Anonymous]

Yesterday my iphone 3gs froze and i had to do a system restore on it. After doing this everything was back to normal except my imessage settings is stuck displaying the message 'waiting for activation'. Can anyone help me fix this please?

[Anonymous]

Make sure your time and date are also set to auto

[Anonymous]

Tried them but still no luck.

[Anonymous]

Try resetting the network settings if you have no joy try backing up and restore on itunes.

[Anonymous]

Have tried resetting the network settings and the restore already.

[Liquid]

Ok well one question were all wondering.

Have you modified your phone? Eg jailbreaked it?

[Anonymous]

Nope, wouldn't even know how to go about doing that!

[Liquid]

Ok, well unfortunately its can only be a hardware issue.

If you have tried all our suggestions I can only recommend to take it in for a repair:( sorry

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure what anybody can suggest as I assume the Apple bods would have done everything that we can suggest in the settings menu.

One last suggestion I can make is that you backup your phone and then try resetting it, but set it up as a new phone. During the setup process, when it prompts you to log in with your Apple ID, skip that step so that the phone is ready to go but not logged into any Apple service.

Then try turning on just iMessage but don't sign in with an Apple ID. It should still try and activate with just your mobile number, so see if you get any success.

If it doesn't work, then you can restore your phone to as it is now.

[Anonymous]

Thanks buffbuff that worked!

I reset it back to a new install and could then access iMessage properly, i then restored from my backup and all is back working again! Woohoo.

[Liquid]

Brilliant:) haha