TS3992 My iPhone won't back up to iCloud.

The iCloud pane in the settings app told me that to create an iCloud backup, I had to connect to Wi-fi, plug in my iPhone and lock it.
I did all that, and even left it that way all night long, but the next morning I checked my iCloud backup and it still hadn't backed up to iCloud.
Now I haven't backed up my iPhone to iCloud for almost five weeks.
What can I do?

I just discovered I'm in the same boat.
I happened to check my iPad 2 and found that the last icloud backup was in mid-July.   I completely turned off the device (Home-Power buttons) as is advised in the Apple troubleshoorting guide.  Started up again.  In Pages, I created a new doc and went to my mac, logged into icloud.com and checked iWork.  The new file was there - so my iPad connection to iCloud is okay.  Pressed the Back Up Now button in Settings>icloud>Storage & Backup.  The progress meter made it a little more than 3/4 of the way through, and with less than one minute go to, the process gave up and the error is the usual "the last backup could not be completed". 
I've searched through many past posts on the topic and the only advice I find is to shut down/start up the device and to reset Network settings.  I've done the first.  Since I'm able to get files to iCloud from Pages, the connection to icloud is okay.  But the backup is the problem.  Any other ideas before I consider a Network reset (which I assume means losing many settings).  Or maybe I go back to backups to iTunes.
I should add that backups work flawlessly on my iPhone.  Also have more than 20 GB of free space on iCloud and about 10GB free space on the iPad.

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