Never backed up iphone, now can't get backup to start

I have an iphone 4s.  Never tried to back up to the cloud until recently.  I turned on all the icloud settings on the phone, click on the backup and it just says "Backing Up" and it stays that way.  What do I do?

Hello, mrwilson14. 
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities. 
Here are a couple articles that you may find helpful with this issue. 
iCloud: Back up your iOS device to iCloud
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12520
iCloud: Troubleshooting creating an iCloud backup
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3992
Cheers,
Jason H. 

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