HT201272 How to retrieve previous iphone backup from laptop to sync onto new iphone?  Keeps asking for a passcode before it will restore the backup.  No idea what the passcode is.

I backed up my previous iphone the other day in anticipation of it being replaced (wifi stayed grey non stop) and now I have my new phone and want to put all of my old data on but it keeps asking for a passcode before restoring the backup.  I've put in what I thought it would be but get nowhere.  How do I get the password or change it?

If your iPhone was passcode protected, check out the first section here.
Or it could be that the backup itself was encrypted in iTunes; that is discssued further down in this same article.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946

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