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Setting it all up

Hey all, my first Wildfire didn't last more than 2 days due to the operator (Tesco Mobile) unable to get a signal for some reason. So just got another Wildfire with another network and would like to get round to setting it all up properly, so advice needed please...

I would like to be able to get on the internet easily but not have it on turned on all the time as I want to try and make the battery last more than one day. Whats the best way to do this? Keep 3G on but turn off background data, or keep it on 2G and only switch to 3G when I need internet? Or any better way of doing this?

Also I've noticed the network is set to GSM/WCDMA, does this mean it auto-switches between 2G/3G for voice calls?

Thanks.
 

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