Can't restore Iphone 3gs because can't charge

I have an iPhone 3GS that I bought from ebay about a year ago and although it's worked fairly well so far, there have been the occasional glitch, which I've always been able to fix myself (needing to be restored, issues with software, etc).
However, last night a new one cropped up and I'm somewhat stuck. The battery, for some reason, completely, which I can only assume is due to my having left something running by mistake. When I went to charge it, it repeatedly switched on and off. As it was the middle of the night, I unplugged it so I could sleep, and tried again this morning. Same thing. It switches on, gets as far as showing the lock screen (complete with 'No Service' at the top left), says it has 5% charge and then goes black and does the whole thing over again. It does this consistently, making it so that I can't get the phone to charge or anything. I attempted to put it into restore mode, but since the battery's dead, I can't start the process without the phone plugged in because I get told to charge it.
Is there any way I can get it to not switch on when I plug it in, so that I can at least charge it so that I'm able to try to restore it? I do have insurance on it, but I'm a little wary of using it just yet, in case this is easily fixable, and as it's secondhand, it's well out of Apple warranty.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get to the genius bar, so I took it to a local repair shop that's always been good in the past. He replaced the battery and, for good measure, the charging port. So far, no change, it's still stuck in a boot loop. I can sometimes get it as far as selecting my country and connecting to iTunes, then the problem starts over again

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