diff --git a/packages/SettingsProvider/src/com/android/providers/settings/SettingsState.java b/packages/SettingsProvider/src/com/android/providers/settings/SettingsState.java
index 3a8216d..3bf6828 100644
--- a/packages/SettingsProvider/src/com/android/providers/settings/SettingsState.java
+++ b/packages/SettingsProvider/src/com/android/providers/settings/SettingsState.java
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@
     private void skipEmptyTextTags(XmlPullParser parser)
             throws IOException, XmlPullParserException {
         while (accept(parser, XmlPullParser.TEXT, null)
-                && "\n".equals(parser.getText())) {
+                && parser.isWhitespace()) {
             parser.next();
         }
     }