Horrible Signal Strength!!! Impossible to talk most of the time

[mikldom]

I can be smack dab in the Middle of Washington D.C. and still cannot use the damn phone without an external antennae hooked up..

I have the new radio version (1.41), and I have put the new WM6 rom, Big J's and Pheonix.. I have tried them all and the signal strenth is just horrible that it is pretty much impossible 90% of the time to use the phone without an external antennae.

I am thinking it has got to be my phone...

I am going to a sprint store on saturday and show them just how bad it truly is.. maybe I can plead with them and they will upgrade to the 6800.. but, seriously, I am happy with all my features on the 6700, I just need it to work... Good thing I pay the 7bux a month for the insurance! I WILL get a new phone this weekend, whether it is a new/refurbished 6700 or a new 6800!! this is just too horrible.

anyways.. enough of my tirade.. anybody have this problem, and how did you fix this?

THANKS!!!