Android app crashes when hardwareAccelerated is enabled

If I am correct, hardware acceleratoin is enabled by default when you build your Android app, and you can turn it of in your tiapp.xml, by setting hardwareAccelerated="false".

We got some crashreports caused by lack of support of this hardware acceleration. The app crashes after the splashscreen. When I disable the hardware acceleration the app works correctly.

Google Play info:

Device: Xperia S (LT26i) Android version: 4.0.3 - 4.0.4

java.lang.StackOverflowError
in android.view.HardwareRenderer.isAvailable

Question: how important is this hardware acceleration, and should I turn it on or off? Or, can I do somekind of check to detect if it's available or not?