Unity Cardboard Applications crashing on Samsung S8 since update to Google VR Services

[jules43]

Recently my family of Unity 5.6.x / Google Cardboard VR applications started crashing on start-up on Samsung S8 phone.

If I go into the Application manager in settings and disable "Google VR Services" then the crash no longer occurs.

This problems is being seen by a fair number of Unity developers and is discussed on this thread:

https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/galaxy-s8-crash.486911/

I have Gear VR builds of all the same applications and these are all working without the crash.

It is possible this issue is related to:
#684

[Ari3n]

Simular issue here! Galaxy s8 . the app i develop starts with a Screen space menu, then when toggling to VrR mode the whole mobilefreezes and the app crashes. That crash even sets the wallpaper to the default one.

[fredsa]

Duplicate of #671

[jules43]

This bug still occurs when the screen resolution is already WHQD+ and occurs prior to enabling VR mode.