Signal-android: Notification light does not appear to work on Android 7.1.1 (Signal Beta)

[AboveMyPaygrade]

I have:

• [x] searched open and closed issues for duplicates
• [x] read https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/Submitting-useful-bug-reports

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Bug description

Notification light does not appear to work on Android 7.1.1 (Signal Beta)

Steps to reproduce

• Receive a text from another Signal user

Actual result: Notification sound plays, and notification appears on the screen and notification bar, but notification light does not blink on the phone itself.
Expected result: Notification sound plays, notification appears on the screen and notification bar, and notification light blinks on the phone itself.

Device info

Device: Huawei Nexus 6P
Android version: 7.1.1, Stock, Rooted, Build number NMF26F, Security patch level December 5, 2016
Signal version: 3.24.1 (Beta Tester)

Link to debug log

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/92753336929b028440eb77bec0569020

[mateoeh]

Can't reproduce

Device: Galaxy S5
Android version: CyanogenMod 14.1 (Android 7.1.1) with December patch
Signal version: 3.24.1 (beta)

[piratenpanda]

Works fine here too N6p, nitrogen rom, latest 7.1.1r4

but well, maybe it's a stock issue then?

[2-4601]

@AboveMyPaygrade Is this something that happened after you updated to 7.1.1 and the notification light worked before that?

[AboveMyPaygrade]

I recently upgraded from 6.0.1 to 7.1.1. However, when I upgraded, I did a full wipe and reinstall of stock, so technically, it's not an in-place upgrade. It did work on 6.0.1, though.

[piratenpanda]

Does it work for all other apps?

[AboveMyPaygrade]

@piratenpanda Actually, I hadn't checked to see if it was an issue with any other messaging apps (apologies; my goof). I went ahead and checked it out with the other two messaging apps I frequently use: _Conversations_ and _Hangouts._

_Conversations_ appears to be working without a hitch, notifications and all. _Hangouts_, on the other hand, appears to be suffering from the same issue _Signal_ is (on my device). Other than the obvious commonality of both apps relying on GMS (_Hangouts_ being used in conjunction with GV), I don't know why it would affect _Hangouts_ and _Signal_ without affecting _Conversations_. I checked all the notification settings to make sure there wasn't something bizarre happening on that end (both per-app settings and global settings).

Considering this new bit of information, could it be it's a bug with stock 7.1.1 Android, as opposed to with _Signal_? If you and others feel this is the case, I'll close out the issue.

[AboveMyPaygrade]

After digging around a bit more, I found another global setting within Android for notifications, which had been toggled off. I don't know if it defaults to off, or if it was just user error (that user being me), but everything seems to be working well enough now. Sorry for the hassle.