Restoring Photos from icloud
I restored a new 4S from an old back up on the computer before I realised I should have restored from current backup in iCloud. how do I recover my photos?
iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1
The photos should have been synced to a computer all along for archive. Many users have lost photos because they were unable to restore them from an iCloud backup. However, in your case, you could do a reset of the new 4S (Settings>General, scroll to bottom of screen...) and then perform a new installation, be sure to choose the most recent backup from iCloud. If they do not come back and you don't have them backed to a computer, then they're gone, unfortunately.