The transmitter of the Logitech G930 is a black slim and rectangular USB device, which can be plugged into USB port including the port of the headset’s hub that comes with the G930. It has a light indicator that turns red when the mic is on mute. The flip-down microphone pivots up and down and is placed on the left ear cup. The MicroUSB charging port is also located on the underside of the left ear cup. However, the surround sound switch and power switch are too close to each other, so the chances of accidentally hitting the wrong button are high in this case. We like the distinct volume wheel instead of volume buttons because it reduces the chance of accidentally pushing the wrong button instead. ![]() The controls – power button, volume wheel, three customizable buttons, Mic Mute button and the surround sound switch – are located behind the left ear cup. If you are experiencing this issue with your G930, I hope either this blog or my application helps.The Logitech G930 headset is predominantly black with few red accents in the circumaural cups the design and padding of the cups make them comfortable. ![]() So tonight I wrote a simple Windows application to help users modify the battery configuration settings which are not normally editable through LGS and uploaded it to Github. This is well and good, but I always forget the path when I reinstall the software on a new machine, and don’t feel that this is very intuitive for people who aren’t comfortable editing XML config files manually. You can simply change the value in the node’s turnOffInterval attribute to “0” to disable this battery saving feature entirely. With the default install location, the file is located at the following path: C:\Program Files\Logitech Gaming Software\Resources\G930\Manifest\Device_Manifest.xml LGS provides no way in the UI to update this setting, requiring you to find and modify the XML file manually, or just get used to it shutting off every 15 minutes. Since it’s a config file you’d think that you could just change the headset’s settings in LGS – no such luck. One particularly annoying problem many people seem to have is that, while the headset works just fine out of the box, as soon as they install the Logitech Gaming Software, it begins to turn itself off every 15 minutes! This happened to me as well, and it turns out that it is just a default power-saving setting in the XML config used by LGS to determine how it should manage the headset. It’s really a shame because the hardware itself is quite good, and it is the only headset I’ve managed to find which is: wireless, supports surround sound, and also has macro keys on the headset (useful for push-to-talk and skipping songs while I’m in the other room.) ![]() Logitech also doesn’t seem very interested in solving any of the driver/software problems for this headset, as some of the simpler issues have been open on their support forums for 5+ years without a patch being released. Google’s search results are littered with people complaining about various issues with the headset’s drivers and the gaming software, some of which are quite severe. ![]() I have never used this software with any of their other products, so I can’t comment on its overall quality, but its support for the G930 headset is really quite awful. While the hardware is excellent, and the sound is quite good, sadly the software designed to support the surround sound, macro keys, and showing the battery status is the Logitech’s Gaming Software suite, aka LGS. Not too long ago I shopped around for a wireless headset which had surround surround support, and eventually settled on the Logitech G930 Headset.
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