I have a Droid Maxx. I use no third party messaging application. It keeps giving my a message that it stopped working. I have to constantly clear the cache and data for the message program to get it to work. I have tried disabling hangouts (which I did not have enabled for SMS messages). Now, I have a permanent one counter on my message icon even when I enable hangouts again (again without enabling text messages on it).
I am getting very tried of having to clear my message cache and data at least five times a day.