I forgot to add that I have turned off all Apps running in the background. I try to do that pretty often anyway because I nice froze things up having too many Apps running. This was back when I first got my iPad
Lolli

Originally Posted by CountryRain

Can she text you ?

I just sent her a text to try to text me. I think back in October she was the one that got through to me. Funny that I could not use the old chat page to get back to her, but it doesn't seem to work. I am assuming that you can go back to an old text thread or page and text on it at a later date. Am I wrong?
Lolli

I sent you a private MSG here

Ok after 10 1/2 hours of trying, here is what happened today. I have the extra insurance policy for my iPad with Apple, and after being on the phone for almost two hours, it was worth every nickel to not pay for that phone call. I talked with a very nice guy about my problem and he took me through every help screen he had trying to find a fix for my iMessage. After talking it over with his supervisor, they agreed that it may have a "glitch" in the App from a faulty download. SO they asked me to reset my iPad to factory settings and download it all again.

Well since there is a new upgrade that came out this past week, which I knew nothing about I agreed to do the clear out and reset,which was a time consuming mistake. All I can figure is that every iPad in the nation was hooked up for that download. SLOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW doesn't even come close to describing what i experienced today. I had my iPad hooked up to my comp from 11:30AM until 4:00 PM and only had 2/3 of the backup completed before it stops and does a time out. Luckily I happened to see it timeout so I could restart the process. So from about 4:15-9:45 I waited on the backup and download process.

The verdict: killed a whole day without positive results. I have tried sending messages to two different people without success. I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing this, or am I the only lucky non iMessage user to be found?

Needless to say I will call Apple tomorrow with my case number and seek more help, but if they want me to do the download thing again I think I will do without their stupid iMessage. OR they will have to find me a faster Internet connection somewhere. I went through withdrawal today not being able to use my iPad. Lol.

I want to thank you all for trying to help me get my iMessage to work.
Sincerely,
Lolli

Oh my goodness, you have had a day of it, No we don't get many through who we can't help, it mostly always comes down to a setting error or something minor with the app playing up. Gosh I know what you mean about missing a day on your iPad too.
I really hope that this gets cleared up for you without this type of day happening again. All the best!

I thought you might like to hear how my issue with iMessage was handled. As I wrote earlier, I spent the entire day yesterday on the phone with Apple, and downloading and reloading my iPad without success. I called again today and got to speak with a supervisor. We went through another checklist, turned off my router, reset the router on my iPad without success. He then suggested that I try using someone else's wireless Internet to see if it would work.

I load up my iPad and head to town to a wireless cafe/grocery store in town. I turn the iPad on, and go to iMessage and try sending a message and IT WORKED!!!! I sent several messages without a problem. So I bought some groceries and came home thinking that I would have to contact my Internet provider to let them know of the problem. So I unload my groceries, open my iPad and decide to try one more time before I call my Internet provider. Well it worked again! I will wait to contact the provider, but now know where the problem lies and hopefully it can be fixed. As long as my iMessage is working it will be hard to prove it is my I P. And if it continues to work, no need to complain.

Thanks to all who tried to help. I still have questions, but they will wait for another day. After spending a day and a half on this, I'm ready to surf and play for a while.
Hugs
Lolli

That's great to hear Lolli......I hope it keeps working ok but if not at least you know where to start looking next time.

The Archangel

Yes so pleased to hear that lolli. Now you can put this behind you, at least for as long as it keeps working. Now just enjoy your iPad and have some fun!

Hello everyone, you all seem like u know what ur talking about and I could use some help..
I live in egypt and just bought the iPad 3, and when I was activating iMessage, egypt was not on the countries' drop down menu so I picked United States. Now I can't message any of my friends here, and I don't know how to change the country or reset these settings.
I would really appreciate your help.
Thanks a lot
Jessica

Originally Posted by JessicaElmasry

Hello everyone, you all seem like u know what ur talking about and I could use some help..
I live in egypt and just bought the iPad 3, and when I was activating iMessage, egypt was not on the countries' drop down menu so I picked United States. Now I can't message any of my friends here, and I don't know how to change the country or reset these settings.
I would really appreciate your help.
Thanks a lot
Jessica

Hi and welcome to the Forum!

I'm thinking this is the Region Format setting here. Go to Settings - General - International - Region Format - there is no setting here for Egypt but if you press Arabic it will take you to another list that has Egypt, select this and you should be good to go. Let us know if this solves your issue.


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