X40 and new battery...​.again

Hello,
I have aquite old x40 which have worked 100% pefect until now. I guess the battery is original, but to my luck it still have little charging capasity in it.
I bought from ebay new (China) battery, and it looked to work ok, except: it died alltough the gauge shows something betwen 65  to 75%. I have upgraded BIOS and Power Managemet s/w with no luck.
After several removings of battery and chargening between those two batteries the new on finally does not take any current anymore. The gauge shows 75%, but I think actually it does not have allmost anything current in it. The old one works perfectly well.
What to do?

lead_org wrote:
return the generic battery to the seller.
Probably that is the the right move. Definitely I won't buy genuine part for a machine which's value is roughly 40 eur or less. With new original battery it's value would rise for more than a double
I tired to google different wakeup seremonies (removing ACPi etc) but with no luck.

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