well i restored the phone to stock 2.0.1 for return to 02, and guess what, yup location services started working.

not wanting to look stupid i declined the new iphone as it was a swap over, also they only had a black one, i have a white one, and i didnt want to send back a 100% working phone.

So pwned it again...........and now i can just say the phone is now flaky, location services kinda works, takes about 8 minutes in maps.

so not sure where to go from here, any advice welcome.

Also can someone explain why i get 1000 times more reception when 3G is turned off?