Does the GPS system work okay on you iPhone 3GS?

I recently got a second hand iPhone 3GS. However it seems to have great difficulty locking on to the GPS signal. The phone gets an approximate location quickly, which I assume is using assisted GPS, but it is very difficult to get a proper accurate GPS lock. I got a good lock if I stood in an empty field but lost it if I walked away. If I left the phone right at the windscreen on a car journey it locked on but if I moved the phone away from there, it lost it again. So I can't use it as a car sat nav due to lock on issues and unreliability.

So what I would like to know is, is this normal for the iPhone 3GS? Or is there something wrong with it and I should return it as it was sold as fully working?

I heard someone say that GPS was terrible in later software versions?

(Software version 6.1.3)

Have you updated it? Reset it to factory settings.

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