New battery remains in pending-charge status, need to reboot to start charging again

I had to replace the battery on a Lenovo P53 (swelling battery). The only replacement I could find (Lenovo no longer has the model in stock it seems) was a Weetyut brand battery from Amazon. The battery works and even seems to have the nominal capacity. * The first time I unplugged the AC and plugged it back after a while, the battery started charging again. * In a second attempt, I let the battery discharge to 10%, then plugged the charger back and the battery didn't charge (waited a few hours...). * I rebooted and the battery charged again * I let the battery discharge to 50%, plugged the charger back, and again it is not charging (also waited a few hours). upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 reports:

native-path:          BAT0
  vendor:               SMD
  model:                02DL028
  serial:               178
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Mon 22 Jul 2024 09:49:01 (93 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               pending-charge
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              45.73 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         89.19 Wh
    energy-full-design:  87 Wh
    energy-rate:         0.0118371 W
    voltage:             11.388 V
    charge-cycles:       4
    percentage:          51%
    capacity:            100%
    technology:          lithium-polymer
    icon-name:          'battery-good-charging-symbolic'
  History (rate):
    1721634541  0.012   pending-charge

and the contents of /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/:

alarm: 4459000
                                capacity: 51
                          capacity_level: Normal
            charge_control_end_threshold: 100
          charge_control_start_threshold: 0
                  charge_start_threshold: 0
                   charge_stop_threshold: 100
                             cycle_count: 4
                             energy_full: 89190000
                      energy_full_design: 87000000
                              energy_now: 45610000
                        hwmon2/in0_input: 11385
                             hwmon2/name: BAT0
                      hwmon2/power/async: disabled
       hwmon2/power/autosuspend_delay_ms: 
                    hwmon2/power/control: auto
        hwmon2/power/runtime_active_kids: 0
        hwmon2/power/runtime_active_time: 0
            hwmon2/power/runtime_enabled: disabled
             hwmon2/power/runtime_status: unsupported
     hwmon2/power/runtime_suspended_time: 0
              hwmon2/power/runtime_usage: 0
                           hwmon2/uevent: 
                            manufacturer: SMD
                              model_name: 02DL028
                             power/async: disabled
              power/autosuspend_delay_ms: 
                           power/control: auto
                               power_now: 0
               power/runtime_active_kids: 0
               power/runtime_active_time: 0
                   power/runtime_enabled: disabled
                    power/runtime_status: unsupported
            power/runtime_suspended_time: 0
                     power/runtime_usage: 0
                                 present: 1
                           serial_number:   178
                                  status: Not charging
                              technology: Li-poly
                                    type: Battery
                      voltage_min_design: 11250000
                             voltage_now: 11385000

Any way to avoid rebooting to charge the battery? Is the battery defective (or not emulating the official one correctly)? Running Ubuntu 22.04 Edit: installed the TLP package, tried sudo tlp chargeonce BAT0, and even though TLP answers Charging starts now, nothing happens.