IPhone 4 compass needs calibrating every time I use it?

Every single time I try to use the compass working the map app it needs to be re-calibrated. Most of the time I am not near any potential interference. I noticed this issue right away and it continues weeks later. Does anyone know how to stop this? Thanks.

Hi
I've noticed issues with the compass on the iphone 4 too. was using it whilst walking at the weekend and noticed it wasn't right, used a proper compass instead.
I've just been messing with it now and noticed that if you slowly turn the phone so that the triangle at the top and the red "N" on the compass dial line up it will actually point north.
As soon as you rotate the phone away from north it "snaps" about and will go between 20 and 90 degrees wrong. the more the phone is rotated the more the north direction is wrong.

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