Icloud photo library doesn't syncr from my iPhone

Hello to everyone,
I Have activated iCloud Photo Library on my iPhone and on my iPod. My iPod sync, but my iPhone 6 Plus has stopped doing it for a long time. I have extra space available on my iCloud account. I've tried to disable and to re-nable the function on my iPhone. I've tried to logout and to logon in my iCloud account, but nothing change, the syncro seems frozen, remain stuck in uploading photos to the cloud, and do not download/show anything. I have uploaded in the iCloud Photo app on the www.icloud.com site more photos that i can immediately see on my iPod (touch 8gb 6th generation), but nothing on my iPhone. I restored my iPhone but nothing again. I know that it's a beta, but I would like to know if I can resolve this big issue for me in somehow.
Anybody here has had the same problem?
Many thanks in advance fo any suggestion/solution.

Trent 1982 solution works!
I tried just about everything that I could think of as well as some of the solutions described above. What worked was syncing my iPad with iTunes and transferring a few photos over to the iPad. Then I turned on iCloud Photo Library and it asked to delete the photos I transferred and then iCloud Photo Library started syncing!
This problem has been bugging me for weeks and I am glad that it is fixed now!

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1 - because we want a single library which includes all our photos from the last 15 yrs
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