Sudden inability to charge iphone 4 4.3.5

I started having an issue last night where pop up for accessory not supported, plugged into OE charger cable and wall adapter. this morning was fine then when i went to charge it it wouldnt charge,looked at pins on cable and inside of phone and there was a dab of green. cleaned with alcohol, dried and blew air through it now it shows it charging but in fact is NOT charging. i havent updated it in recent week if i remember correctly (did alot of updates and such for a friends iphone so i really dont think i did my phone) i am kind of lost as i have had it for 11 months problem free.
i have tried other cables
tried to use usb port in comp to charge
closest Apple store is like 30 miles away and just hard to get to.
any help?

krasava wrote:
I noticed that my battery drains very fast - whole charge gone in 5-6hrs or even less), while abroad and without Internet (don't want to use roaming). I've shutted off all services and it doesn't help at all.
I get same battery life even when I put phone in 'airplane mode', which supposed to shut down all network activities.
Recently I got Internet connection shared through WiFi on my mac laptop and everything went back to normal again - whole day and only 18% gone.
Obviously, that can be a huge issue, as Internet may not be available for the whole trip. I remember, I was able to get 3-5 days on stand-by and may be short phone calls with my old 3G iPhone (iOS 3.2.x) while abroad and without Internet connection.
Is there is any solution for this problem?
If the battery drain occurs when cellular data is off it means that some app is trying to send data and failing, so it continuously retries. From what you said later the problem was the Contacts app trying to update your server side Contacts.

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