How to install the Android 14 Developer Preview
The pre-release cycle is upon us once more, which means you can fiddle with the Android 14 developer preview if you want to. We’re bound to see plenty of updates until the final launch of A-14, with some exciting features appearing along the way. Until then, you can install the developer preview if you have a Pixel smartphone.
Of course, nothing is quite that simple.
What is the Android 14 Developer Preview?
I’ve been assuming that you’re here reading this article because you know what the Android 14 developer preview is. In case you don’t, let me explain. The Android 14 developer preview is a pre-release version of the Android 14 operating system. The preview version is commonly made available to developers before the public release. it allows developers to test the apps on the new operating system to ensure stability and compatibility ahead of its official release.
Another key factor when testing out a developer preview is to ensure that your device is compatible with the new operating system. Always check the Android website to see which Android devices are compatible.
What Devices are Compatible?
I've already mentioned compatibility. Ensuring your device is compatible is one of the prerequisites. Otherwise, you would be just wasting your time if your device isn’t on the list. You could either test this preview by flashing it on a pixel phone or using an emulator as part of an Android studio. Below I've compiled a list of devices that are compatible with the Android 14 Preview.
- Pixel 4a (5G)
- Pixel 5
- Pixel 5a 5G
- Pixel 6a
- Pixel 6 & 6 Pro
- Pixel 7 & 7 Pro
How You Can Install the Android 14 Preview
To install the Android 14 Developer preview, I’ve put together the following simple steps:
- Check compatibility - Ensure your device is compatible with the Android 14 Developer Preview. See the list I’ve added above.
2. Backup your data - The installation process could erase some of your data, so before installing the Android 14 Developer preview, it's important to back up.
3. Into a USB Port on your computer plug your Google Pixel.
4. Click the Get started button on the official Android Flash tool website.
5. Download the Android USB driver and follow the instructions otherwise to continue press Already installed.
6. Allow ADB access by clicking the button. This will allow your computer or phone to share any information bi-directionally.
7. Confirm the fingerprint key on your pixel phone by pressing allow if required.
8. If the no devices message appears on the flash tool follow the on-screen steps to prepare for installation on your device. The new device message appears even if your device had been prepared earlier. It is normal for the first time if you don't have any pixel devices set up.
9. Press Add new device once your device is properly prepared.
Your device is now Android 14 Developer Preview ready.
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Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?