Droid 3 GPS issues

Over the past month or so, the GPS on my Droid 3 has been acting funny. Examples: using Google Maps, it will sometimes not find the GPS signal (yes, I'm outside). In other times, like yesterday, it worked fine but about 35 minutes into the drive, the GPS signal was lost. I tried turnign the GPS on and off but I eventually had to re-start the phone. It happened again on the drive home. Using Foursquare, sometimes the GPs will not respond when I hit the "check-in" button. Yes the GPS is on.
Because the GPS works some of the time and after re-starting the phone, that it is likely a software issue. It seems othere have had this issue. Is there a solution?
Thanks

Hi FBrown,
I see how a failing GPS feature can be frustrating when relying on it to get to a specific place. By reading your post I see that this GPS failure can be attributed to a loss of data signal somewhere along your trip. Additionally, when checking in with the FourSquare application (or any similar application) GPS may fail particularly indoors as some structural properties may greatly impact wireless signal. The GPS behavior described in your post may be normal depending on location and wireless signal strength.
I checked my resources and I was not able to locate any similar issues reported. However, I would recommend running your Droid 3 in Safe Mode next time you use your Google Maps navigation application and/or your FourSquare application. Running your phone in Safe Mode temporarily disables all applications that have been installed via the Android Market. Performing this troubleshooting step is necessary to determine whether a 3rd party application is causing the GPS feature to fail.
If the GPS issue is resolved while in Safe Mode, you must identify the conflicting 3rd application and remove it. You may need to remove all 3rd applications and re-install one by one in order to identify the application causing the issue.

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