What happens if you restore a factory unlocked iphone

What happens if you restore a factory unlocked iphone?

hii there, i have bought iphone 5 it is factory unlocked from usa i purchased it second hand in india i am not able to software update my phone (currently ios6).. it is also jailbroken (cydia).. and also i am not able to reset my phone it just hangs for 40 odd minutes then i have to hard restart...
questions are :
1.if i update to ios7 through itunes will it cause some problems as it is jailbreak.(as said by everyone)
2.if i restore to factory settings will it get locked again (as i am not sure whether this phone is carrier unlocked or unlocked by my local retailer).
i am ready to remove jailbreak.
pls advice

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Hello everyone!
     First off i want to say that i am living currently in the Palestinian Territories/ Israel and have been using a unlocked windows phone ever since. I have a Locked AT&T iPhone 4 and have went ahead and taken it to a cell phone shop here that claimes that they can Factory Unlock any iPhone you bring them. The shop here didn't seem fishy or anything because their were about 50+ iPhones waiting for the Factory unlock prosess with many customers leaving happily with a unlocked iphone.
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Torkit, I appreciate your help very much,
This iPhone has been officially factory unlocked because I have done an update to 5.0.1 to 5.1.1 without loosing the unlock, and I have confirmed this with many others as well as the owner of the store who did a restore in front of me with one of the iPhones he has unlocked, and surely enough, he was greeted with "congratulations your iPhone is unlocked".
So we can both now confirm that it is indeed a factory unlock.
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