Any way to color calibrate screens of Android Phones and tablets?

[Mortis Angelus]

FIrst of all I'm not sure this question should be in Displays, Peripherals or in this section. Just move to whatever section is correct.

 

I own an X-Rite ColorMunki which I use to calibrate my PC monitors and TV. While I am quite okay with the colors of my phone, I do notice a slight shift in colors when viewing the same image on my phone vs my other screens. As I edit quite a lot of in-phone photos in Lightroom Mobile it would be nice to get the screen calibrated. I also plan on getting a tablet down the line, most likely an Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 (a variant of it), and Samsung is notorious for sacrificing color accuracy for over-saturated and popping colors to increase the wow-factor. So there I would definitely wanna calibrate it.

 

But as far as I have managed to google, there seems like there used to exist software to use for calibration, but now they have all been removed as Android has become more and more locked down. Is this true? Is it impossible to properly calibrate the mobile screens?

 

Would I be better off buying an iPad Pro for accurate color work? Does iPads allow proper color calibration?

 

Grateful for replies! Thank you!

[OhioYJ]

Your current device doesn't have color calibration under display? I can't remember the last time I ran factory software, but display / color calibration is built into Lineage. 

[Mortis Angelus]

2 hours ago, OhioYJ said:

Your current device doesn't have color calibration under display? I can't remember the last time I ran factory software, but display / color calibration is built into Lineage. 

That is a false tag manufacturers add there. To be able to adjust presets for temperature and color profiles is not to calibrate. Even if you have a manual color temp slider and even RGB slider, you can't calibrate unless you also have access and the possibility to connect and use a coloriometer.

[OhioYJ]

14 minutes ago, Mortis Angelus said:

That is a false tag manufacturers add there. To be able to adjust presets for temperature and color profiles is not to calibrate. Even if you have a manual color temp slider and even RGB slider, you can't calibrate unless you also have access and the possibility to connect and use a coloriometer.

 

Do you have a colorimeter that supports Android? I'm not sure what more you are looking for?  I have RGB adjustments, Hue, Saturation, Intensity,  Contrast, without digging too deep into it. 

 

I don't have a colorimeter to test with so I don't know. 

[Mortis Angelus]

3 minutes ago, OhioYJ said:

 

Do you have a colorimeter that supports Android? I'm not sure what more you are looking for?  I have RGB adjustments, Hue, Saturation, Intensity,  Contrast, without digging too deep into it. 

 

I don't have a colorimeter to test with so I don't know. 

The issue is iOS/Android sandboxing due to how OS system security is done.

 

According to this guy, you can't.

I was hoping to learn from here if someone knows how to bypass this sandboxing issue and get a complete color profile change. If even possible.

 

And if this guy is to be believed, the best thing seem to be just to get an iPad for color-critical work. But I really, really don't want to buy an apple device.... I had hoped to just get a second hand Galaxy Tab S7 FE...