Only some photos go to photostream

Only some photos I take on my iphone end up in my photostream album. I have not updated to iOS8 yet. Please note, the problem here is with photos not going into photostream on the device they were taken on (in my case an iphone 4s) NOT with syncing between devices. I have tried all standard troubleshooting - closed the camera app, settings for photostream and icloud are on, wifi connected, more than 20% battery, signed out and back into icloud account, turned phone off and back on. It seems very random which photos go to photostream and which do not. I took three photos within 30 seconds of each other and the second one went to photostream, the first and third did not. I have looked and looked over the forum discussions here and have yet to find a fix. My husband has the same problem with his phone and a different icloud account. Sometimes photos make it, other times they don't and this includes photos taken within minutes of each other. Now that Google Play exists, photostream is (was) the only thing keeping me from going Android. Anyone have this problem and found a true fix?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
All photos taken on the phone go to the camera roll. If photostream is enabled they should also go to photostream in addition to photos added from other devices. Photos added to photostream from other devices will not be added to the camera roll on your phone (unless you move them manually.
Photos taken on the phone should be added to camera roll immediately, it may take a few moments before they appear in photostream, while they are sent from the camera roll to the cloud and back again to photostream.
If photos aren't being added to photostream there may be a couple of reasons:
Photostream only syncs photos over Wi-Fi, make sure you are connected to Wi-Fi to begin with.
Photostream only syncs when the camera app is closed, ensure it is closed.
Photostream only syncs when the battery is above 20%, try recharging the device
If the problem persists:
Try disabling photo stream on your device (settings > iCloud), restarting your device and then re-enabling photo stream.
If this doesn't help you may need to reset photo stream. You can do this at icloud.com by clicking on your name in the top right corner and then the advanced settings in the pop-up dialogue box that appears.
Note: disabling photostream and re-enabling it will result in any photos that are currently in the photostream album on your device, that are older than 30 days old, not being added back.

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