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guyht

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Feb 11, 2011
17
0
I can't activate iMessage. I says 'Waiting for activation...', then, after about 20 minutes, it says 'Activation failed'.

I have tried all the obvious things (I think). Restart phone, reset iMessage, use different apple ID etc but can't seem to get it working.

Anyone else experienced this issue?

Ty
 

jwingfie

macrumors 6502a
Dec 30, 2008
631
15
Athens, GA
I can't activate iMessage. I says 'Waiting for activation...', then, after about 20 minutes, it says 'Activation failed'.

I have tried all the obvious things (I think). Restart phone, reset iMessage, use different apple ID etc but can't seem to get it working.

Anyone else experienced this issue?

Ty

Did you try a hard reset? Holding down the power and home button until the phone resets?
 

WiseAJ

macrumors 65816
Sep 8, 2009
1,222
3,977
PDX
I'm having the same problem. iMessage won't activate and neither will FaceTime.
 
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