I have recently upgraded to iPhone 5 from an iPhone 4. The 4 has been given to a family member and the contacts were deleted. Now they're missing on both phones. How do I get them back?

As the title says. I've lost all of my contacts, from both phones and icloud.

That's the way things are supposed to work...all devices using the same iCloud account are kept in sync. You delete on one device, & it deletes on all, including iCloud. Unless you have a backup that contains your contacts, or they are in a supported application on your computer, they are gone.
You should have deleted the iCloud account, on the iPhone 4, before giving the phone away.

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When you share an iCloud account between devices, any action you take on one device (such as deleting contacts) is synced to the others. (That's want iCloud does; syncs data across devices, keeping the data on the devices the same.)
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See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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I tried syncing my Iphone4 apps on a "new" computer. I was told that the computer was not registered with iTunes and could not back up all the bought apps. When I went to check on the iPhone after this I noticed (have been blind not to) that almost all of my bought apps were missing. After I registered the "new" computer and sync'ed my apps nothing removed showed back up. How do I get these apps back?
I tried syncing on the "old" computer and all the apps were grayed out with some unchecked. Since they are grayed out I cannot unchecking and sync them.
The difference between the "new" and "old" computer is the OS. New has Win7 old is XP.

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" but the mac didnt allow them because of some apps on my phone s"
What does this mean?
How did you try to import those pics?
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I am trying to figure out what exactly you did.
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In the future you should be importing your pics to your computer regularly.

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