Mike Hartington had a look into it on my Galaxy Note 10.1 over the network but wasn’t able to find anything conclusive. He suggested looking into using Crosswalk Crosswalk Integration Beta in Ionic CLI (v1.3.2) which worked for me. Resolved the issue on both devices. Downside is bigger APK and can’t be built using PhoneGap build. Many positives though.
Someone was going to look into it but given it was only two devices affected, it probably wouldn’t receive much focus given Crosswalk appears to be the strategic direction anyway.
Perhaps knowing it affects another major device they might investigate; particularly as it used to work in beta 13.