ICloud Photo Library - Updating forever

I've been using iCloud Photo Library since iOS 8.1 without too much problems (apart the fact that syncing between devices is very slow).
For no apparent reason, on my iPhone 5 (iOS 8.1.2), icloud photo library is stuck at updating 22 pictures to the cloud. I've rebooted twice my device, checked on icloud.com to see if the pictures were there but they are not uploaded their hence they don't show on my iPad Air too. New pict uploads are working from the iPad though but won't sync by to my iPhone 5. So this seems to be a problem on my iPhone 5 only...
How can we fix that?

You shouldn't really lose anything, you were told to back up all your photos when you agreed to join this beta trial.
It would be helpful to know if you do actually have 22 photos yet to be uploaded (shring this type of information, is after all the purpose of participating in a beta program.
My first step would be to turn it off and on again as suggested.

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