This recovery zip copies certain partitions to /cache.
The copied partitions are system-critical ones that aren't available online (thus no kernel, system etc as they can be easily obtained online, and are covered by Nandroid anyway; no bootloader as it's available from stock ROMs, it's not directly writable from the bootloader itself, and it's believed we don't have JTAG access anyway).
A practical application I just experienced is recovering from the "connected as installer" bug if you try to enable mass storage mode and now MTP breaks on every boot; other benefits are restoring MAC addresses (from persist partition) and IMEI (unproven).
Only tested on XT1021. A copy of the partition table (boot into recovery, "adb shell", "parted /dev/block/mmcblk0", "unit kb", "p", copy and paste output, "q", ctrl+D) is enough for me to determine compatibility, however!
Like the tool itself warns, it is to be used along with a file manager or ADB.
XDA:DevDB Information
XT1021 Backup Tool, Tool/Utility for the Moto E
Contributors
Ryccardo
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 1
Stable Release Date: 2015-01-03
Created 2015-01-03
Last Updated 2015-01-03
The copied partitions are system-critical ones that aren't available online (thus no kernel, system etc as they can be easily obtained online, and are covered by Nandroid anyway; no bootloader as it's available from stock ROMs, it's not directly writable from the bootloader itself, and it's believed we don't have JTAG access anyway).
A practical application I just experienced is recovering from the "connected as installer" bug if you try to enable mass storage mode and now MTP breaks on every boot; other benefits are restoring MAC addresses (from persist partition) and IMEI (unproven).
Only tested on XT1021. A copy of the partition table (boot into recovery, "adb shell", "parted /dev/block/mmcblk0", "unit kb", "p", copy and paste output, "q", ctrl+D) is enough for me to determine compatibility, however!
Like the tool itself warns, it is to be used along with a file manager or ADB.
XDA:DevDB Information
XT1021 Backup Tool, Tool/Utility for the Moto E
Contributors
Ryccardo
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 1
Stable Release Date: 2015-01-03
Created 2015-01-03
Last Updated 2015-01-03