I bet my life that this has nothing to do with Vungle or other plugins.
Corona has major bugs related to 1) “openal” and 2) the listeners involved when app changes state (pause/resume/exit). I guess there is a race condition or a destroy trap there.
They released a bug fix last month but it didn’t fixed all the bugs. Corona team keeps asking for projects that can reproduce the bug. This is not possible! This happens @0.5% os the sessions so we developers cannot reproduce it easily, but it is a huge percentage that marks an app for a penalty in google play rankings. Worst of all, a game needs to have over 5K daily active users to start facing a stable number of the bug occurrences. Since most devs are not that successful not everybody screams about it. However, the bugs are there for good! I also face the same problem for a lot of months (probably since the beggining years ago - now google vitals just undercover the situation).
I really don’t expect something good from the Corona team anymore. It seems that this project is just (softly) maintaned and will be soon abandoned. They don’t even fix a major bug for 6+ months now. Search the forums for “crashes” and “openal” and you will see what is happening right now. But nobody cares. The devs are focusing in the html5 feature promised 5 years ago. Just abandon things you have not the resources to do and focus on bugs…
A dissapointed long time (Carlos times) user…