Hey guys,

I've had my n900 for a few days but I have an annoying problem with LED notifcation failures for SMS and charging.

It's a vanilla UK handset running the latest UK firmware (I updated OTA with app manager).

It's not been modified, and I've only enabled Maemo Extras repo.

Apps installed are a few games from Ovi store, Foreca weather widget, personal dataplan widget, Facebook & sharing widget (but it was not displayed on desktop) and Xchat.

Notification settings have LED set for calls/sms/charging.

Yesterday I noticed the LED failed to flash when I had an incoming SMS. Also when the unit is on charge, it didn't glow orange.

I rebooted, still same problem. I then enabled all notifications and the LED flashed for missed call, and Device On worked but still no SMS or charge light.

I took out the battery and I still had the same problem. I then did some searching on here and looked at the mce.ini file.

This was timestapped Dec so it's not been touched. I had a look in it anyway and it has the relevant LED pattern bits so SMS should work.

I then reflashed the firmware via NSU and charge/SMS LED light worked ok again. I added all the same apps back and today, it's failed again for sms/charge notifications.

Did the same reboot / take battery out step but still nothing.

There's a thread here with a script to test LEDs via dbus. I ran that to pulse the LED for SMS notifcations for 10secs, still nothing.

Tried restarting mce, nothing. Device On, missed call notifications worked OK.

I then uninstalled all the apps, rebooted, took battery out and it's all been fine for the past few hours. I have installed the games back from the Ovi store but nothing from Maemo Extras.

I'm running the dbus script to pulse the LED for SMS every half hour or so and it's been working OK. The orange charge light is also working fine.

I'm not sure what's going on, if I had a LED problem I'd expect it not to flash at all. I don't know for sure if the apps are causing a weird problem, does not sound likely they would only affect charge/sms notifications.

Anyone come across this?

Cheers.