Notification LED in ICS?

[someguyatx]

Is there any to make the notification LED work on ICS with SMS/MMS? I tried Lightwave, Blink and 3rd party sms programs and no luck.

I know this forum is nearly dead but figured I would give it a shot.

 

[friedtators]

Whatsapp may work. I use noled and could not find android version on website needed

 

[someguyatx]

I found an old thread here about this topic and editing settings.xml and now the led notification works and flashes green for sms

The setting is notification_light_pluse and you have to change the value from 0 to 1

Above Requires root

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[garbb]

Where is that settings file located? I assume somewhere in /data/data/? I can't find it.

 

[dark_mirage]

find -d 1000| grep settings.xml
In terminal

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[garbb]

I actually found notification_light_pluse in the com.android.providers.settings/settings.db > system sql table, but when I try to edit it with sqlite editor it says "update failed: error 5 database is locked" ...

 

[someguyatx]

You must be rooted but I used es file explorer and the root explorer option. From root explorer select mount RW then change /system to RW access so you can edit the settings.xml file. After you are done editing change it back to RO access

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[garbb]

Well I had to search for it since you still didn't actually tell me where it was... Its /system/etc/settings.xml

I changed it from 0 to 1 and rebooted and sent myself an sms and the light didn't do anything so I guess it doesn't work. This is in ICS; maybe in GB it works?

 

[someguyatx]

Im running ICS version ZVK

Was your screen off when the sms was received? There is no ledif screen is on or phone is plugged in

 

[garbb]

Yes the screen was off when the sms was received and I am running ZVK as well. Weird that it didn't work...

 

[someguyatx]

That is odd, mine is working for sms, email, gmail. On your sms do you have display message notifications checked?

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[garbb]

Yes display message notifications is turned on. I also have new message popup turned on. Do you have this turned on?

Just to be sure, is /system/etc/settings.xml the file you edited? And you changed the 0 in this line to a 1?:

<parameter db="system" name="notification_light_pulse">0</parameter>

 

[someguyatx]

Yes and yes. I also changed access back to R for that directory after done editing. Not sure if that matters.