Unlocking and OTA

[Guest ruzfactor]

Hi

I have recently bought a Huawei G300 and it is locked to Vodafone UK. My firmware version shows B892. By searching through the interenet I have found that Vodafone would release ICS for this phone and will be available through OTA. But I want to unlock the phone as soon as possible (vodafone is very costly). Will unlocking prevent me from upgrading to ICS via OTA from Vodafone (even if I use vodafone sim while doing that)?

Also will unlocking the phone degrade its performance?

Please suggest should I go for unlocking.

Thank you.

[Guest rosco-85]

Unlocking your phone definitely won't affect OTA's. But if you want the best performance out of the phone, a non-Vodafone ROM is the way forward. Either Infusion or a clean ICS build.

[Guest ruzfactor]

Thanks. When the ICS upgrade is available from vodafone, do I need to use vodafone sim card for OTA or any sim card would do?

[Guest rosco-85]

Any will work. OTA will work even without a SIm card in. It is done over your Wi-Fi connection, so the Network has nothing to do with it. When I got mine I unlocked it to use O2 then did OTA update.

[Guest yaqh]

mine dosnt find any ics updates?

[Guest psionandy]

mine dosnt find any ics updates?

It hasn't been released in the uk yet....