looks like the latest battery-status fixes the hang if
fully charged problem (though it now always reports
"charging" even when the battery is full). Thanks to
the author.

If you have flite installed, the tablet can tell you the
battery level, add lines like these in the appopriate
place:

P.S. it's tricky to do this in the tablet since the keyboard
lacks the " ` " symbol and the " ' " symbol (soft keyboard
has the latter)