Battery not working

Hi

My Removable battery is Recognized by the system but shows as an empty battery icon in the top bar. It is shown in inxi:

System:
  Kernel: 5.17.1-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
    root=UUID=b6f3bfb4-b9ed-496b-944b-06e4c2a778e0 rw rootflags=subvol=@
    quiet quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
    loglevel=3
  Desktop: LXQt v: 1.1.0 tk: Qt v: 5.15.5 info: cairo-dock, lxqt-panel
    wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP 15 Notebook PC
    v: 0973110002405F00000620180 serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 8015 v: 11.15 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: F.21 date: 09/25/2014
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0 Wh (0.0%) condition: 13.9/13.9 Wh (100.0%) volts: 10.7
    min: 11.1 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: N/A cycles: 124
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Puma built: 2014-15 process: GF 28nm family: 0x16 (22)
    model-id: 0x30 (48) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x7030105
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 256 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 1x2 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1119 high: 1216 min/max: 1000/2000 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1076 2: 1048
    3: 1139 4: 1216 bogomips: 15970
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu arch: GCN 2
    process: GF/TSMC 16-28nm built: 2013-17 ports: active: eDP-1
    empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:01.0 chip-ID: 1002:9851 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Webcam type: USB
    driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-1.2:3 chip-ID: 05c8:0226 class-ID: 0e02
    serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.2
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: radeon unloaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: radeon display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99")
    s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: LG Display 0x046a built: 2014
    res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64")
    diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1366x768 min: 640x480
  Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1 chip-ID: 1002:9840
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1022:780d class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.1-zen1-1-zen running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.52 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtl8188ee v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8179
    class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 698.64 GiB used: 24.9 GiB (3.6%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD075
    size: 698.64 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 2C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 698.34 GiB size: 698.34 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 24.9 GiB (3.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 576 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 698.34 GiB size: 698.34 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 24.9 GiB (3.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 698.34 GiB size: 698.34 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 24.9 GiB (3.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 698.34 GiB size: 698.34 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 24.9 GiB (3.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 10.64 GiB used: 23 MiB (0.2%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 52.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 52.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 211 Uptime: 59m wakeups: 2 Memory: 10.64 GiB
  used: 1.87 GiB (17.6%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1195 lib: 332
  Shell: fish v: 3.4.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: alacritty
  inxi: 3.3.19
Garuda (2.5.8-1):
  System install date:     2022-04-06
  Last full system update: 2022-06-25 ↻
  Is partially upgraded:   No
  Relevant software:       NetworkManager
  Windows dual boot:     no
  Snapshots:               Snapper
  Failed units:

When i pull out the charging cable my laptop crashes. I sometimes get a "battery very low" warning on boot. It worked until some months ago (didn't bother with it because it the last (and slowest) of 3 laptops we have).
thanks in advance

Your battery is broken/dead

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