The USB Manager library

Describes the USB Manager library.

To follow the overview and tutorials below, you will need a general understanding of the USB Implementers Forum's USB 2.0 specification and a particular understanding of Chapter 9 of that specification (which concerns the USB device framework).

If you are implementing code for a Symbian platform phone that supports (or that you intend to make support) USB host/On-The-Go (OTG) services, you also need a thorough understanding of the On-The-Go Supplement to the USB 2.0 Specification before you follow any of the instructions in this documentation.

• The USB Manager Library Overview
  This document introduces you to the USB Manager library.
• Discovering details of USB personalities
  This document explains how to use the USB Manager library's functions to discover information about the USB personalities currently available on the Symbian platform phone.
• Loading a USB personality
  
• Monitoring the phone's status as a USB peripheral device
  
• USB On-The-Go (OTG) Technology Guide
  
• Enabling the USB Manager library's host/OTG functions
  
• Locking applications out of the USB Manager
  
• The conditions for starting USB services
  This document describes the conditions that serve as triggers for starting USB services in a Symbian platform phone.
• Starting USB Services
  This document tells you how to start USB services using the USB Manager library.
• Checking Whether USB Services are Running
  
• Enabling USB host-driver loading
  
• Monitoring USB Peripheral Attachment and Detachment
  The functionality described in this document is for On-The-Go (OTG) -enabled Symbian phones only.
• Managing the phone's USB role
  The functionality described in the documents linked to below is for OTG-enabled devices only.
• Retrieving a Peripheral Device's String Descriptors
  The functionality described in this document is for OTG-enabled Symbian phones only.
• Stopping USB services
  This document tells you how to stop USB services by using the USB Manager library.