Iphone 6 stalls uploading photos to iCloud photo library

i have an iPhone 6 with the latest version of ios. Pretty often - generally at least once a week - it will attempt to upload new photos to iCloud photo library and just get stuck. Usually I have to either turn iCloud photo library off then on or sign out of my iCloud account to get it to start. But for the past few days (and of course I am on vacation so it can't do a full reset because I have no access to my iTunes backup) it just hangs. First trying to upload one photo, then whatever new photos I took - including photos that I airdropped to my iPad mini and are already in the icloud photo library. Now I again tried tuending my iCloud account on and off and it is sitting trying to upload over 1,100 hundred shots.
Any suggestions I can try before I get home and can try apple tech support of s full factory reset and restore?
Thanks

You may not like this solution, but it's the last thing that the apple care support could offer.
Let's say you have a bunch of photos stuck on syncing...
Connect iPhone to a computer via the cable, set iPhone to Airplane mode
Use Photos.app and select your iPhone in the sidebar (enable the sidebar first)
Select the photos you want to import
Select "Import"
Now all your photos are downloaded from the iPhone and then uploaded to iCloud Photo library.
Delete the Photos on your iPhone manually, also from the "trash"
Disable airplane mode on the iPhone
Disable iCloud photo library in the settings of iCloud.
Log out of your iCloud account on the iPhone
Wait till all the photos on the iPhone are deleted as well... delete them manually, also from trash (make sure you have them all in the Photos app on your mac!)
Restart your Phone
Log into your iCloud again and enable iCloud photo library.
All the photos should sync.
I hope this helps, it helped me at least!

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