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Location accuracy changed dramatically since thursday july 25th

Thus far I have been fairly happy with the location accuracy of my fitbit ace lte.  My son is at summer camp so it helps to see where is in, especially on field trip days.  As of Thursday I almost had a heart attach when all of the sudden it was showing my son in a random house no where near camp.   I took off from work to find him in camp, with his watch.  Having never had a problem, I trusted the device was atleast somewhat accurate.  Since then it has consistently been way off.  I have tried to restart it several times.  He is wearing it in the same locations so wondering if there was an update that broke this feature? Tracking was a key feature for giving this to my son, as is, this is now no longer worth the price tag, so hoping there is a fix coming.  Anyone else seeing a dramatic drop in accuracy all of the sudden? 

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Mine has been fine.  Next time it happens, check the location update time.  Maybe it's not getting updated.

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Sometimes there is definitely a delay,  but even when it finally updates, its still wrong.  It's just very odd this went from never being an issue in these locations, to being an issue 80% of the time.  Feels like something has to have changed....

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That's pretty strange. One thing you can do is to check both the maps in
the app and the map on Google. When you open Google Maps, your kid will
also show up there. Verify that both are pointing to the same location.
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