Android Gear VR starts "Oculus Home" instead Unity App

Unity Engine
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Hey all,

I have successfully published a Unity VR App to my Samsung Galaxy but when I start the published application and plug the phone into the GearVR “Oculus Home” opens instead of the app.

However, when starting the app a popup apears:
“Insert device - To open this application, insert your device into your Gear VR”.

Is there any way to get around this and directly start the app or disable Oculus Home?

I already tried uninstalling “Oculus Home”, but then when I start the application Android forces me to reinstall Oculus Home.

Unity 5.1.1f1
Android 5.1.1 (Galaxy S6)

Cheers, Nico.

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If you’ve gone to Oculus Home then your Unity game has crashed. Check the log to see why.

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ok - thank you - i will do this!

4

Make sure that your signature file is located in your Assets/Plugins/Android/assets folder of your project when you build. The folder structure names are case sensitive.

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Hi all,

thanks for you help. I did the following:

  1. Update to unity 5.1.1p4 (p2 fixes some issue with android & unity personal)
    After that I got a message within GearVR “APK Signature missing”

  2. Then I added the signature and it worked.

So the issue was that 5.1.1f1 does not work with GearVR and Unity Personal.

Thanks a lot, Nico.