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4:24 pm
April 8, 2011
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Works for me now too
4:34 pm
July 2, 2010
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okay. i went into settings and i was able to activate imessage AND facetime!! i was never able to do this before. it always used to say unable to activate.
i compared my settings pages with those who have contracts and they are the same.
yay!!
i hope this is a standard feature speakout is implementing now.
5:35 pm
November 11, 2011
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holy cow... worked over Wifi as well. iMessage used to say "activation unsuccessful".
Now, it says: "iMessages can be sent between iPhone, iPad and iPod touch".
Moreover, Receive At: says 2 addresses. 1st is my phone number (greyed out) and 2nd is my apple ID email.
woo hoo!
No facetime for me, as I have a 3GS.
10:41 pm
November 22, 2011
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So strange, it is working here too (facetime and imessage both work, but only through the email contact not the phone number contact).
I so wish I tried to do this 1 week later it would have saved so much time. For those who had issues
1) ensure facetime / imessage are on in settings, general, restrictions
2) enable imessage in settings, messages
3) enable facetime in settings, phone
So, did anyone test other shortcodes? For sure speakout/rogers is accepting that apple shortcode now or we would not be able to activate. The nice thing is the activations are sim specific, so new updates etc should not require a new activation.
Thanks for all your replies and happy iphoning. BTW, what do you all think of the $10 data plan? Worth it or is it like going back into the dark ages of dialup?
10:58 am
March 2, 2011
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Short codes work now. I have tested it with FaceBook (32665) and Twitter (21212)
10:15 am
March 2, 2011
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Is it me or does short codes do not work anymore?
11:46 pm
December 6, 2010
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iMessage just started working for me on 3G too. This is awesome!
12:24 pm
October 25, 2011
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Imessage is working for me for the last two to three days, I am not sure if it will last though.
Does facetime work as well? Any one with iphone 4s tried if Siri works on 3g? If so, it may finally worth to try to get an iphone 4s.
12:40 pm
April 8, 2011
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Yes Siri works on speakout 3G. If you want the 4S just for Siri you will be greatly disappointed. It is only marginally faster than the 4 on some tasks.
4:19 pm
December 8, 2011
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I'm using an iPhone 4S with 5.0.1 and have been unable to activate imessage using my phone number. It just stays at "verifying" for a long time, then it fails, and says "error" next to my greyed out phone number.
It activates and works fine with my Apple ID, but I really want to get my number activated as well because when I message my friends, it shows my email instead of my number, which causes confusion.
I've tried resetting all my settings, restoring my phone, hard reset, and whatever else I found on google.
Has anyone been able to find a way around this? Thanks.
3:20 pm
March 2, 2011
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For a short period of time, Speakout allowed short codes to be sent. In order for apple to activate your number, apple needs to send out a text message to a short-code number. No longer does speakout offer short-code messaging, so it is impossible for you to activate iMessage using your phone number. The only thing you can really do, is contact SpeakoutWireless and suggest them to include short-code messaging in their service. Eventually, if they have enough requests, they may add short-code messaging in their service.
8:04 am
July 8, 2011
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darn, I guess I missed the shortcode window. only able to activate through email.
But is there any advantage to using both as opposed to just email? Aside from avoiding confusion, which isn't really that big of a deal.
12:13 pm
January 10, 2012
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I was able to activate iMessage and FaceTime using my phone number this week. A couple of days ago, I was just checking if short codes were working or not using iMessage. Of course, it didn't.
But in the process, I was messing with the on/off switch for iMessage. I quickly enabled/disabled iMessage a couple of times. I forgot about it and today I wanted to change my e-mail address on iMessage and noticed that the phone number was now in the list of caller ID!
So I tried the same thing with FaceTime. Enabled/disabled a couple of times, let it be and then I checked a few hours later and voila, my phone number is activated.
I'm not going to turn it off again to test it again because now my iMessages actually show up with my phone number.
I'm on Petro-Canada, but I would assume this would work with SpeakOut as well. Good luck.
12:32 pm
November 11, 2011
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espresso said:
I was able to activate iMessage and FaceTime using my phone number this week.
Thanks for the heads up. I lost my "phone activation" when I upgraded to the iOS 5.0.1. It wasn't just hte upgrade which caused me to lose it (I was also messing with SAMPrefs). Trying again now.
2:56 pm
October 5, 2009
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Thanks also - I'm trying to activate it now. I think this was the first time FaceTime/iMessage ever prompted me for my password...maybe it'll work...
3:16 pm
November 11, 2011
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Corporate Gadfly said:
espresso said:
I was able to activate iMessage and FaceTime using my phone number this week.
Thanks for the heads up. I lost my "phone activation" when I upgraded to the iOS 5.0.1. It wasn't just hte upgrade which caused me to lose it (I was also messing with SAMPrefs). Trying again now.
Worked already folks. Short code window is open.
4:41 pm
January 10, 2012
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Corporate Gadfly said:
Worked already folks. Short code window is open.
Did it work for you with just enabling it once? That didn't work for me, but the enable/disable seems to have triggered something to allow the short code to work. Anyway, activate quickly before they close this loophole .
5:24 pm
November 11, 2011
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espresso said:
Did it work for you with just enabling it once? That didn't work for me, but the enable/disable seems to have triggered something to allow the short code to work. Anyway, activate quickly before they close this loophole .
For me iMessage was activated already (but only with Apple ID). So, disable followed by enable, followed by commute home on the subway, followed by instant happiness when I saw that iMessage was activated and "Received At" showed 2 addresses (1 phone number + 1 Apple ID).
1:24 pm
March 29, 2012
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Yesterday I successfully activated iMessage but FaceTime just said waiting to activate.. Then this morning FaceTime said unable to activate.. any ideas to why only iMessage activated?
5:22 pm
January 10, 2012
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billiebob123 said:
Yesterday I successfully activated iMessage but FaceTime just said waiting to activate.. Then this morning FaceTime said unable to activate.. any ideas to why only iMessage activated?
I had the same issue. I just tried again. Eventually it worked.
