I just created a little Tasker profile that is kicked off by the time. It could be kicked off by receiving an SMS message.
Profile: tlaTest
Time: From 22:10
Enter: Anon
A1: Notify LED [ Title:Test It Out Text: Icon:null Number:0 Colour:Red Rate:500 Priority:3 ]
When it kicks off the logo associated with the Notify LED command is displayed and slowly pulses.
It would be soft as apposed to bright but other than that it meets your criteria.
... Thom
Thanks, Thom. I appreciate that. I'm leaning against the Maxx now, but if I change my mind I'll come back to this.
Yes, that's right. FWIW, the Droid Mini does have a notification light, so that device would work.
As others have said, though, it's thought that a new line of Droids may be coming soon, so if you can wait and it turns out that there is a replacement for the Mini that continues to have a notification light and the smaller display size interests you, it may pay to wait a bit. I have a strong feeling that any new Droids will continue to use Active Display (now called "Moto Display" on the 2014 Moto X). Otherwise, a Galaxy S5 or Note, HTC One, or LG G3 is probably what you want.
I actually just waited for the iphone 6 to come out, so I'm not willing to wait for any more phones. It's decision time. I'm deciding between the iphone 6 or a similarly sized non-huge Android. LG G3 is just too big for me. The slightly smaller LG G2 is tempting, but still a little larger than I would like. I came across the MAXX in the store today and liked the size and feel of it, and the battery power, but this notifcation light issue may have just knocked it out of contention.
In a nutshell, the main pros and cons for me in making my decision are:
IPHONE 6:
PROS: I can easily make the text very large on SMS and emails with iphone, which enables me to read texts and emails without reaching for my reading glasses. VERY important to me. I also like the look and feel of iphones, and how they seem to work well and everything looks nice, etc. I also have a Mac Air laptop, so it's easy to sync. (My daughter and GF and most everyone else I know uses iphones as well, which is another vote for it.) I haven't handled the phone yet, but I think the size of the 4.7 inch one is going to work very well for me.
CONS: No notification light on iphones, so I'm constantly picking up the phone and/or turning on the iphone 4 I'm currently using to see if I missed any messages.
Not impressive battery. I'd really like to get through a full day with some room to spare with moderate use and eliminate battery anxiety.
Little annoyances like an outgoing sound on texts that can't be turned off, and a couple of other irritants due to Apple design rigidity and stupidity.
ANDROIDS/OTHERS:
PROS: Notification light. Great batteries on some of the models. Two very important things to me.
CONS: I haven't found the perfect phone yet. The LG G2 is nice and includes two great things I want -- notification light and impressive battery --- but it's a little big for my liking, and the text and email font size can't be made very large, annoyingly. I can't read the maximum without glasses which is important to me, so would need to download separate apps for both emails and texts, and in my limited experience in that area with old LG Lucid, those can be irritating and prone to trouble and rarely work as seamlessly as pre-installeed features, and definitely do not match how nice and large iphone maximum fonts look.
Samsungs DO have big enough fonts, but I don't love any of their models for one reason or another.
So there you have it: iphone 6 v. an undecided Android, with LG G2 being leading contender. (Annoying that their verizon model is heavier and a little different than the others).
I do like the mini's of some of the androids in terms of size, but I don't think any of them offer astounding battery life, which is one of the things I'd want in an android.
Any thoughts?