Restoring iPhone 5 backup to iPhone 4S: "No Backups Available"... help!

My iPhone 5 was stolen. I believe it was running iOS 6.1.4 ... I am trying to restore my last back up (which I definitely have done) to my old iPhone 4S but it says "no backups available". The most recent iOS available for my 4S is 6.1.3. Is this why? I have read that the iPhone 4S cannot and will not get 6.1.4 because it was a iPhone 5 speaker bug correction. How can I get my information restored? I only have one Apple ID so I know that I'm not using the wrong ID either. Your help is greatly appreciated...

Inconvenient for you that you cannot restore a backup, but by no means catastrophic. If you've been using your iPhone as intended, all your contacts are already synched with a cloud service or with an app on your computer. Your photos are imported off your phone to your computer for safekeeping as you would have done with any digital camera. You can re-download any iTunes media and apps to your phone or synch them back from your computer. You can reinput your mail accounts or even synch them back from your computer if you had selected to do so.
The only things you can't get back are app data and text messages.

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