Messages app won't mark texts or imessages as read

The messages app on my iphone 4 (os 6.1.3) won't mark any of my texts as read. I can receive texts and imessages, read them, and if I'm fast enough I can send replies, and I can see that the new message count goes down. However, within 20 seconds of opening the app, all messages that I have received since the problem started are marked as unread again. Additionally, if I am in a message thread when this happens, the new messages from that thread are opened in a new thread. I can only type for about 10 seconds after opening the app, and if I am typing after those 10 seconds, the app will crash and close itself.
This seems to be very similar to the behavior described here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/22226643?ac_cid=tw123456#22226643 although my problem is with both texts and imessages. I did all the things described in that thread:
"I've turned my phone off and on and few times. I reset the app a few times. I even did a hard reset of my phone (holding the home and sleep button at the same time). I also went into my iMessage settings to turn it off and on again. I changed it to my email address, instead of my phone number. I turned off SMS and back on. I've done a lot of things and the issue still persists."
I also backed up my phone up and restored it completely. This problem is still happening, though I see no problems at all in any other apps.
Any ideas?

I am having the same problem. iMessages sends and sync with my iphone 4s and ipad, but even though I'm signed in on my mac with iMessage, I can't send any mesages and they don't sync with the messages sent from my iphone. I am signed in with my AppleID on the mac, and I get the confirmation notices on my iphone and ipad, but I can't send send or receive iMessages on the mac.
I've tried the numerous fixes suggested in other articles, such as signing in and out on all my devices (starting with the iphone first), deleting plist files, uninstalling Flash player, resetting the PRAM, repairing disk permissions, booting in safe mode, but nothing works.
I have a MacBook Pro 17" running the latest version of Mavericks with Messages version 8 (4226).
My iCloud account is a different login than my AppleID I use for the iPhone, iTunes, and Messages, but that's because it's the AppleID that is tied to my cell phone number.
Thank you for the help.

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