Comment 3 for bug 1163607

@Toby Kurien: As a workaround the notification led (if your device has one) could be turned on using an upstart script.
I did this for my Nexus 4 and it works quite well. However, I do not guarantee that this won't break anything (I'm quite sure that nothing could happen, but I just want to be sure that nobody can accuse me of messing something up).

I have put the following (without the quotes) in a file called "pwoffled.conf" in /etc/init/ :
"start on runlevel [016]
stop on runlevel [2345]

script
 echo 255 > /sys/class/leds/blue/brightness
end script"

This should turn on the blue indicator led when the phone is shut down. I am not sure if this is the correct way of doing this, but it works on my phone.

If you do not have the Nexus 4 but have a device with a notification led it should be possible to use this script with minimal changes.