Drag and Drop not working between 2 activities on some devices

I use the following code to drag a view from an activity to another activity within my application. Knowing that the second activity (That receives drop event) is not created / alive when the drag starts.

It works good on

Samsung Note 3 Android 5 API 21, Samsung Note 4 Android 6.0.1 API 23

but not working on

ASUS ZenPad 8.0 Android 5.1.1 API 22, Le Max 2 Android 6.0 API 23

Your thoughts are appreciated.

Starting Drag operation:

public boolean onItemLongClick(AdapterView<?> aParent, View aView, int aPos, long aID) {

    View.DragShadowBuilder shadowBuilder = new View.DragShadowBuilder(aView);

    Intent intent = prepDNDIntent();

    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
        aView.startDragAndDrop(ClipData.newIntent(DRAG_N_DROP_DESCRIPTION, intent), shadowBuilder, null, 0);
    } else {
        aView.startDrag(ClipData.newIntent(DRAG_N_DROP_DESCRIPTION, intent), shadowBuilder, null, 0);
    }


    startMainActivity();

    finishThisActivity();

    return true;
}

Receiving Drop Operation

public boolean validDragNDropOperation(View aView, DragEvent aEvent){
    boolean status = false;

    ClipDescription clipDescription = aEvent.getClipDescription();
    if (clipDescription != null && clipDescription.getLabel().toString().equalsIgnoreCase(DRAG_N_DROP_DESCRIPTION)) {
        status = true;
    }

    return status;
}


public boolean onDrag(View aView, DragEvent aEvent) {

    switch (aEvent.getAction()) {
          case DragEvent.ACTION_DRAG_STARTED:

               This is not called on some devices

               return validDragNDropOperation(aView, aEvent, false);

          case DragEvent.ACTION_DROP:
                    ....
                    ....
                    ....
                    ....
                    ....
                 break;
    }

    return true;
}

Knowing that both Activities are set android:launchMode="standard"

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