X220i battery not working, starting up on its own

Background: I've had my x220i for a bit over 2 years and never had a problem with it. Suddenly a couple of weeks ago it completely died for no reason. It was fine one day, and the next morning when I tried to wake it from sleep state, the screen went on but was frozen. Nothing changed that, including long-pressing the power button, so I removed the battery and that turned off the screen. Then it wouldn't turn back on again no matter what I did (I tried things I found online, including removing the battery and pressing the power button 11 times, which has apparently worked for a lot of other people). I took it to get repaired, and they replaced the motherboard. When they did that, it was able to start up but the keyboard and battery weren't working. They replaced the keyboard because it's still under warranty, but not the battery.
Battery: The computer identifies the battery and it charges, but when I unplug the laptop it turns itself off and doesn't seem to draw any power from the battery, considering when I turn it back on the battery still says it's fully charged. The battery lasted about 4-5 hours with no charge before all this happened. The repair people said they checked the battery's connections to the laptop and it all seems fine, but I'm not convinced it's not a connection issue. However, I don't know what else to tell them to check. I don't want to order a new battery only to find that that doesn't solve the problem, but I will if there aren't other ideas about what to check.
Startup: When I shut down the computer but keep it plugged in, it's been restarting itself. When it's unplugged, it starts itself as soon as I plug it in. Today when I plugged it in it started itself, but the screen went black before the login page. After a long press of the power button, it went to sleep, and then I pressed the power button again and it went straight to the login screen.
Does anyone have ideas about what could be going on, or what I could have the techs look into further?

Who did you get to repair it?
Is there any activity in Power Manager? When its charging it should tell you the amperage that's going through. Being stuck at 0.0 means a bad mainboard charging circuit but they apparently replaced it.
My question is how old is the battery and what is it's charge cycles?
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