Facetime activated but won't connect after ios 7 update

I tried all the various options, spent days googling it for my iPhone 4 and this is how I resolved it. I set up the iPhone from new and did NOT restore from backup. I added the apps etc back on manually.

FaceTime worked perfectly. So I made a new backup.

I then restored from my previous backup just to check if FaceTime might work and it failed again.

Tried restore backup from PC and from iCloud - neither worked.

I went back to my new backup and restored - perfect.

My advice. Set up as new iPhone. It's a pain but not as much as not having FaceTime.

Glad it works. I tried every solution I could google to avoid it but in the end just bit the bullet.

And you know what, I have more space and have dumped a load of apps I never used.

Top tip: Screen shot each of your iPhone / iPad screens so you remember what all your apps were. Screenshot= press Home + On/off button at the same time.

How do you restore documents and game progress without a restore from earlier backup?

I think there are 3rd party apps out there which extract data from apps, I briefly looked into it as I too didn't want to lose data. However they were not free and when I weighed up what I was actually losing I figured it wasn't really that much so I didn't bother. I just screenshotted each of my Notes and made sure I knew all my logins.

Thanks gavthom for your solution

Full erase and setup as NEW worked for me too,

only iCloud info came back, everything else is a manual re-setup...here comes the pain...

Thanks for your suggestion - I'm having the same problem with my iPhone 4.

Rumors has it that apple has started the rollout of 7.0.3 already... Think i'll give it a try before reinstalling everything from scratch.

Rollout of 7.0.3 will be next week. Looks like they're trialling internally first.

We don't know what the update is though. Could be anything!

Same issue here. Ios7 update did not fix it. Glad I am do for upgrade. TIME TO SWITCH TO SAMSUNG. F You Apple!!!!

There was a key step I think missing in precious solutions that worked for me. Go to settings and turn OFF FaceTime prior to resetting your network settings. Once that process completes go back into FaceTime settings and turn FaceTime back on. You may need to plug in your wifi passwords again but this worked for me.

Previous not precious... I'm not gollum.