MSI GT660 Laptop charge problem

My computer is awesome, its about a year old now. Lately its been having trouble charging, or "running on power". I have to tilt the power cable, or put my phone on the cable to tilt it so it charges, and if i play a game on it, sometimes it will "untilt" juts enough to stop the charging and my computers performance goes down the drain. Its really bothersome because i cant really use my computer for its intended purpose "gaming" now that its charging is so unstable.
Any ideas of how i can solve this problem? Just buy a new power cord? When i google the problem a lot of the suggestions are that the power socket is malfunctioning.. and not the power cord...

Oh boy, i had the same problem until eventually inside the laptop the pin broke of. Not the pin itself but behind it. I had to open it up and connect a small wire from the front to the back. ( i assume it's kind of vague).
What ever you do, don't put pressure on it because eventually it will break.

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