bkim94558 wrote:
It was an Apple authorized repair shop. Apple told me to send it to them. The repairs shop was on their repair website. So puzzled by all of this.
Can you verify that it's your phone? Like I said earlier, I've had otherwise unusable iOS devices (i.e. no working display and home button fell off) still manage to connect to iTunes and back up. If you've done it before and it's a "Trusted Computer" then that should be no problem. If it doesn't then it might not be your phone.
If I'm ever in your position, I think I'll take a picture of my device first before bringing it in for servicing.