My iPhone 5 will not charge due to the internal jack.

I have an iPhone 5. There is nothing wrong with the battery, and this problem exists with four different charging cables and sources that I use: bed stand (wall outlet), computer (iMac), car, office (wall outlet).
These same cables and locations all charge my other 3 lighting connector devices just fine.
When I plug a charging cable into the phone's charging jack, the phone may not recognize the cable. If I turn the cable a little, it will, almost as if there's a short in the cable, but it does this with every cable, and they are all in splendid shape. So the phone will go back and forth from indicating that it is plugged in back to indicating that it is not. This used to just happen when the phone/cable were wiggled or moved after being plugged in. Now the phone will sit there perfectly still and go back and forth from thinking it's connected to not thinking its connected. It sounds like my phone is blowing up with text messages, but it's just the charging indicator coming on and off at random.
With the old iphone 4 style charging plug, there was a youtube video which explained how to clean out the charging jack if this happened, using a qtip and some alcohol. So I did the same thing with my iPhone 5, although, I had to modify the qtip for size since the jack is so small. I was pretty thorough, but when I turned the phone back on, it continued the same behavior. I'm not due for an upgrade until September and my phone is no longer under warranty.
Do you have any advice for how I can fix this problem at low cost?

The problem could be that you don't have enough storage on the device itself, not on iCloud.  Go to Settings>General>Usage to see how much "Storage" you have available on the device.  Farther down the list is the available storage on iCloud.
Also check:
Go to Settings>iCloud>Storage & Backups>Manage Storage; there, tap the device you need info on and the resulting screen lists Backup Options with which apps store data on iCloud as well.  Tap Show All Apps to get the complete list of apps and MB used for backup storage.
A device needs many MB of storage in order to perform a backup to iCloud.
Also see:  http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4847`

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