Photo stream discrepancies across different devices

I recently restored the firmware on my iPhone 4S and set it up as a new phone (iOS 5.1). After entering my iCloud login/password and waiting for data to be downloaded, I noted that Photo Steam has 380 photos on this device, but on my MacBook Pro, Photo Stream shows 639 photos.
How can this be? Turning off PS on the iPhone and turning it back on again doesn't change this situation.

I chatted with Apple tech support. They said [add rolling eyes here] that this is easily solved with the new Family Sharing feature. In other words, I sign in on my phone, my wife signs in on hers, and we share our photos in the Family folder. Of course, no photos are automatically shared in the Family folder. It's just a shared folder, something anybody could have created in iOS 7. I would still have to drag all of my photos and my wife would have to drag all of her photos to the folder in order to share them. Also, I notice that app updates on her phone are strangely being downloaded under her account, so when we make a change, it says the downloaded app will have to be deleted, because it was not downloaded through my account. This Family Sharing thing is a joke. I told the tech support lady that this didn't feel like much of a "feature" at all. She suggested that I provide feedback if I didn't like it, which I did.
So there is no way to do what I'm wanting to do under iOS 8 at the moment. I love Apple products, but wow, iCloud is a disaster at the moment. Just look at all of the people who upgraded to iOS 8 and upgraded to iCloud Drive without understanding the implications. Now they're getting an error message that they need to download Yosemite in order to access their documents, even though Yosemite isn't available to the public yet. Not well planned. In the meantime, we just don't share our photos in exchange for finding each other for lunch.

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Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this. It sounds like you may have moved your photos out of the Uploads folder where they need to reside.
iCloud: My Photo Stream troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3989
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I apologize, I'm a but unclear on the exact nature of the issue you are describing. If you are having issues with My Photo Stream on your iPhone after a recent upgrade to iOS 8, you may find the troubleshooting steps outlined in the following article helpful:
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Hiya,
I have a slightly more complicated question similar to this one and you seem to be the guru to ask judging from the other posts so here goes:
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hers: 345
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When i updated my iPhone (hers) with ios7, it fell over and died. When I rebooted it, all of my photos and videos were gone. So the only place that those photos exist (not videos sadly) is in the elusive photostream. I am terrified to turn photostream off and back on again on any of the devices for fear of losing those photos.
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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202786
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I'm having almost a similar issue with my two iDevices. I have an iPad 3 and an iPhone 6 Plus and both of them have exactly the same settings for iCloud as well as "Photos & Camera". Photo Stream is enabled on both devices.
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