Gps tracking not accurate even at places away from buildings and trees

The big blue circle of gps is like half a kilometer wide.....it would shrink to like 70-80 ft then again widen up.....i updated my ios to the latest....gave my phone a hard reset....but nthing worked......what could be the problem here??? could it be a hardware problem?? btw its not jailbroken and its not under any warranty or aggrement...pls help

Same problem here. My iPhone 4S was working fine until yesterday morning. I drive about 120 miles per day, and it worked on the first "leg" by the morning. When I got in the car for my way home, it didn't get any GPS signal, but when there was less than 10 miles to go it started working again. Today it didn't get any GPS signal at all. Tried a hard reset and restored from a backup, but apparently it didn't work.

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