Downgrading My Huawei Honor Non Cam to Gingerbread

I have upgraded my Huawei Honor Non Cam a few weeks back to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), hoping that it will be able to improve my user experience on the phone. Things did not turn out the way I wanted it to, so now I want to downgrade my phone back to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).

Reasons why I did not like the Honor's ICS:  

• Battery life; lasted even shorter than my old iPhone 4S on a full charge.
• Memory management; horrible multitasking ability that causes my music player to crash while web browsing.
• Missing flash player; had to search for flash player 11 for Android via the web browser to find and install before I could get flash to work in the stock browser.  
• Comes with locked boot loader; requires a patch to allow flashing to other ROMs.

At the point of writing, Huawei Singapore did not provide access for the stock Gingerbread ROM meant for the Non Cam version of Honor to the public. Therefore I will be using the general version of Gingerbread meant for the Honor.

Files required: 

• Patch which will allow downgrading (mirror)
• General version of Gingerbread meant for Honor (mirror)

  Prerequisites:

• Huawei Honor Non Camera phone
• MicroSDHC memory card slotted into your Huawei Honor
• A Mac or a PC that can access the root directory of the memory card through your Huawei Honor
• Ability to follow simple instructions

Instructions:  

1. Patching the Honor

• Extract the zipped patch file you have downloaded
• Place the "dload" folder to the root directory of your memory card
• Perform the software upgrade via settings

2. Downgrading to Gingerbread

• Extract the zipped Gingerbread file
• Place the "dload" folder to the root directory of your memory card
• Perform the software upgrade via settings