Phonegap Status bar styleDefault & fall back for android below 6

I want to set my android app status bar to light background and dark text. It is working perfectly when I view my app in Phonegap mobile app. But after building the app and installing in mobile it's not working. I'm using Android 7.

I used below code in config

<preference name="StatusBarBackgroundColor" value="#F1F1F1" />
<preference name="StatusBarStyle" value="default" />

I've also tried using javascript in index.js after the device ready

StatusBar.backgroundColorByHexString("#F1F1F1");
StatusBar.styleDefault();

I tried removing the plugin and installed the latest code from github as suggested by related posts in StackOverflow. Nothing is working. Any suggestions?

Also, Is there any fallback code to handle android versions below 6? I came to know that those versions doesn't support dark text in status bar.

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