Android Messages keeps crashing

[Zack_Friedman]

Currently using a Samsung GS8+. I recently switched from Verizon's default messaging app Message+ (which was meh) to Google's own Android Messages. I like the look and feel of Android Messages way better. it looks cleaner, newer, and has a really great web client for texting from a web browser. The problem that I've been having though is that the app is literally constantly crashing. In the last 4 days alone, the app has crashed 39 times. The crashes are minor. When the option to "wait" is selected usually it recovers, and when I "Close app" it automatically relaunches fairly quickly. This was only really a minor annoyance until recently, when all of a sudden the app will report that messages have been unsent even when they have, and people I text are telling me that they're getting duplicate texts. So far I've tried uninstalling and re installing, wiping the app cache, wiping the app data, starting the device in safe mode, disabling carrier messaging apps, even deleting the cache partition. The only thing that worked was deleting the cache partition but then I was added to a group MMS and it crashed almost immediately. I would like to avoid going back to the Verizon app if possible so I want to make sure that I do anything I can to get it to work. Google doesn't provide support for the app, Samsung told me to just give up and use their default app. I'm stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance. 

[GrahamCracker47]

This happened to me for about 4 months. My advice, download Textra on the google play store. It is fantatsic