Two issues with Gear VR Development

Two issues i've seen with the Gear VR. I wanted to open a discussion to anyone else having these problems too. I'll be making the same post at the oculus boards. I've seen these floating around elsewhere and just wanted to get a list going and see if anyone has gotten any solutions.

1. Disappearing animations when they are too close to the OVR camera

Example:

If i move the sword/shield further away it works fine for some odd reason.

2. Unity crashing on app.

If I am in developer mode. It will simply crash and let me know. If I am not in developer mode it will load up the samsung gear vr menu instead of my app after a long time.

Sometimes it will show the unity splash logo, sometimes it wont.

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I'll make the same post at oculus hoping to get an answer. This is really annoying to deal with development wise. Gear VR is already released. whats with all these unresolved issues? I've seen other posts mention these problems dating all the back in 2015. If anyone has had any luck resolving these. Please let me know.

Thanks,
HK