Iphone thinks its synced with another library...???

i always used my iphone with my PC, which has only one library. I don't keep any music in the library anyway - after transferring music to iphone, i delete it from the library since i don't use iTunes to listen to music. i've been doing it this way for years and years, managing everything on it manually through the "manually manage music and videos" option.
Now, suddenly after I connect my iPhone, I can't add anything to it, can't delete anything from it, can't change or edit ANYTHING... all I can do is listen to the songs on it on iTunes, that's it. I also noticed "manually manage music and videos" was no longer checked, and when I check it and click apply it tells me that the iPhone is synced with another library and I need to delete everything on it to sync it with this library... but NOTHING HAS CHANGED. I don't know why this is... nothing changed with the computer or hardware. Tried restoring my iPhone back up from 5 months ago, didn't help (only made it worse), I don't know what to do.... I don't want to delete everything and put it back again after... does anyone know how to fix this?
note: I can add music through the "autofill" option but that's it... I can't create/delete playlists, delete songs, edit song info, or anything else, it's driving me crazy...
If anyone had this similar issue and managed to get it fixed, please let me know... this is driving me crazy... definitely my last Apple product.

I'm not sure exactly why the setting for Manually Manage Music changed, however, when you change from Sync music to Manually managing music, you will get that error message because it will remove all music from the device so you can manually manage it. Your other issue is the fact that you have removed all of your music from the library. When you restore the phone, or update the software, at times the phone will need to resync your music because that is not contained in your backup, just a setting about the music. If your device tried to resync music, it would find there is none. Also, I'm not so sure why you cannot delete music, but I'm guessing that since you say all you can do is listen in iTunes is that you cannot listen using the Music App?
To be honest, I'm not sure if there is an answer to this, least ways one that you would like to hear. I would see if anyone that manually manages music on their device can provide better information. This is the best that I can say.

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