well then it has to be wisbar since I got rid of both of those and keep all othr settings the same I've noticed a large difference

you could alwas buy and extended battery life battery for around 25 dollars i think...not sure how much more mah difference we are talkin about....anybody has one that it can tell use the maH on it?

I bought an extended battery from ebay for $17. It came with car and home charger. Althought this is a non-brand battery, it lasted 2-3 times longer than my stock battery. The description says 2400mAh. Here's a link if anybody interested.
http://cgi.ebay.com/For-Audiovox-PPC...QQcmdZViewItem

I'm getting it from PhoneAlarm which displays it in percentage. It's basically a translation of the bars into %.

There is a way to directly get the exact signal from the phone via some diagnostics, but I'm not sure how.

ok so heres an update. i wasnt very happy with my actual phone. it felt like there was a lot of potential with it but it just wasnt getting there. i called some guy at sprint and he told me that theyd give me a new battery. i took it and the sprint store said that they would run some diagnostics. after they did they just straight gave me a new phone because i had my 6700 for less than 3pdays. i wanted to see if it was indeed my phone and not the programs so i set everything up exactly like before. there was a noticeable improvement but i decided to try and get even more so i followed all the setting instructions here. im currently at my internship and im at 80% at lunch instead of the usual 20-30%. thabks for the great help guys

man you know my First PPC-6700 sucked at battery life. I would have to charge that thing like 3 times a day with light usage and NO programs or anything installed, backlight low etc but it was an older rom. Took it back after 3 days of having it (this was last month) now I have the newest rom PPC-6700 and with programs on it, hacks etc, much better performance!