Architecture
The Kindle Touch is running a Linux OS. While you're interacting with it, internally, a mixture of native programs, Java, and Javascript is being run on the device.
- The Kindle "OS" or whatever you call it starts out when the Kernel calls upstart (not sysvinit anymore). Upstart loads the low level linux components. Lipc is this thing amazon wrote to allow all components to talk to one another. Everything in the Kindle is modular. In theory, I can write a python implementation of the media player and set a lipc event handler and property reader and music will play through python. Pillows are the HTML5/JS component of the system.
- It's weird how they decided to make some parts of the OS HTML. My guess is that either 1) they wanted the whole thing to be HTML and halfway through realized it wouldn't work and fell back to Java, but didn't have time to rewrite everything or 2) they wanted the whole thing is Java but didn't have time to rewrite everything and then quickly whipped up some HTML stuff they were doing for the browser anyways. Either way, pillows are registered into the appdb (a sqlite3 database) which also contains a listing of book handlers (java reader plugins) and download handlers (unused). Overall, it's VERY messy.
The big picture
Search Bar Shortcuts
;dm - Dump messages to /documents
;dh - Dump cvm heap
;dt - Dump cvm stack
;shpm - set device to shipping mode
;urst - Reset user partition, deletes content of hidden System folder, Audible folder, Documents and tts folder.
Before using do a complete backup of your device
;debugOn - verbose logging
;debugPaint - log painting functions
;debugOff - non-verbose logging
;debugPref - pref level logging
;dP - alias of ;debugPref
;311 - change carrier settings
;411 - server information
;611 - wan information
;711 - wifi information
;setTime - sets kindle time to unix clock
;st - alias of ;setTime (format: yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM - e.g.: ;st 2012-07-22 17:59)
;usbnetwork - toggle USB networking
;un - alias of ;usbNetwork
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