Q: I tryed to reset my phone and now i cant activate it and it says its searching in the very top left portion of my screen

so my phone wouldn't send any messages and wouldn't let me call anyone, so I looked to see if I was connected and I had great wi-fi but where the 3G and data was suppose to be in the top left corner it said it was searching so I looked online to see if I could solve the problem and it told me to reset my phone so I did and it made go through the steps it asked me if I spoke English and then it made sign online but after that it said it the activation servers were temporarily unavailable and my phone wont let me activate it I tried plugging it into my I tunes and everything...and it still says its searching. what am I suppose to do???