How to change lift off distance logitech

-For a lower lift-off distance: Please disconnect the mouse, hold down Button 4 + Button 1 while re-connecting the mouse through USB

- For a medium lift-off distance: Please disconnect the mouse, hold down Button 5 + Button 1 while re-connecting the mouse through USB

- For a higher lift-off distance: Please disconnect the mouse, hold down Button 4 + Button 1 + Button 2 while re-connecting the mouse through USB

Simply put mouse LOD is the lift-off distance at which the sensor stops tracking the movement of your mouse. This is important because during gameplay you will often have to pick up your mouse and reposition it on the mousepad.

With a high mouse LOD, the sensor will keep tracking while you already lifted the mouse resulting in inaccuracies during gameplay.

Should You Care About Mouse LOD?

Since we are talking about important metrics related to mice and their sensors it is obvious you should care about LOD when purchasing new products.

LOD greatly influences the tracking capability of your mouse since if the LOD is too high you will experience a lot of issues during the process of lifting your mouse. You can also experience spin-outs or shaky cursor movements and a slew of other sensor-related issues.

Making sure to purchase a mouse with low native LOD and with the capability to also adjust LOD if need be is quite important.

Most gaming mice have a LOD of around 3 mm which is a good balance between too high and too low.

The main influencing factor in LOD is the mouse sensor. Unfortunately, even great mice like the Razer Viper Mini are known to have high LOD because of the budget sensor inside of the mouse.

Another important factor for LOD is the mouse feet you are using. The mouse feet naturally create distance between the mousepad and the sensor therefore can influence LOD leading to shaky tracking or complete spinouts.

This usually happens when your mouse feet are too thick or were placed incorrectly leading to sensor tracking issues because of LOD. In these cases, you should try buying a different pair of mouse feet.

This specific issue is quite common with ceramic mouse feet since they are thicker than normal PTFE mouse feet.

The last influencing factor when it comes to LOD is your mousepad. Different textured surfaces also sometimes cause issues with LOD making the mouse shaky and unusable. Most often these are Cordura pads like the MPC450 or the MP510 that have clear bumps and rough textures.

Even though these issues exist, with most mice you can resolve the shaky cursor issue by simply increasing the LOD for the sensor or your mouse.

How to Change Your Mouse LOD

To get to fixing your mouse LOD issues you need to figure out if your mouse uses software or it has a dedicated hardware button.

In the case of the MZ1 to change the lift-off distance of the mouse you can simply use the hardware buttons on the bottom of the mouse.

Most other mice have a software where you can simply increase the LOD slider from 2mm to 3mm. This should help with the ceramic feet, or thicker PTFE feet and also help with the rough surfaces of your mousepad.

The Logitech G Pro Superlight, on the other hand, has no such slider and apparently, the sensor adjusts the LOD automatically for the surface it uses, calibrating according to necessity. This is somewhat neat, but in case the sensor is miscalibrated you are stuck with an unusable mouse that spins out.

Luckily there have been no issues with the GPX on any pads (Cordura, hybrid, or cloth pads) therefore for now we can assume the self-calibrating sensor is doing a good job.

I have a logitech Anywhere MX (1st gen) that I plan on attempting to replace the switches on because I'm getting some double click issues. However this mouse has another annoying issue which is a huge lift off distance. I like picking the mouse up to re-position it often and for some reason the cursor still "jitters" on the screen with the mouse lifted half an inch from the pad! I've never had such a large lift off distance on any other mice before. Is this something that can be adjusted in software or with a utility? I don't see anything in software.

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If you own a Finalmouse Starlight-12 Phantom, Achilles, Hades, Ares, Zeus or Pegasus, you may want to try and test this trick to change lift-off distance.

Also, there's a good chance that you don't even need to update firmware for this trick to work. It worked straight out of the box with a Starlight-12 Phantom for me.

Before we get into it, it's important to understand exactly what L.O.D. / Lift-off distance is for a gaming mouse. It's the distance in which the mouse intentionally no longer responds to tracking input.

L.O.D. is often confused with sensor/tracking accuracy. In reality, most modern sensors can track accurately from a range of about 2mm, but the higher end of the spectrum will result in slightly lower sensitivity (which can be compensated for in Windows/game settings).

That being said, I found the default L.O.D of the Starlight-12 Phantom to be a bit low, coming from an Ultralight 2. The effect that this has is it feels as if the mouse "cuts out" easily. However, do understand that there are plenty of benefits to a short L.O.D. (literally less effort to lift-off and create more space and also recentering your position on the mousepad more easily). 

For users of SAPPHIRESKATES, this may be worth trying since our skates are just a touch thicker than most (but it should also work fine on the default settings).

How to Change Lift-off-Distance on Starlight-12:

1. Using the switch at the bottom of the Starlight-12, TURN OFF the mouse.
2. You can keep the Micro-USB extension cord/Finalmouse Wireless Receiver either plugged in or unplugged for this, it doesn't matter (I tested and it works both ways).
3. Hold the left and right click buttons at the same time, PLUS one of the following options:
1. For standard (default short LOD), additionally hold the browser forward button.
2. For longer LOD, additionally hold the browser back button. 
4. While holding one of the combinations above, TURN ON the mouse. It will flash blue to represent the default setting and will flash purple for the alternative longer LOD setting. You can easily switch between the two by repeating this process.

If you encounter any troubles, you can try to update the firmware following the instructions in this video by YouTuber Nimmy.

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