Before installing the Android 14 Beta 1 manually, use the factory image for your Pixel when it’s released, do not upgrade platform tools right now. Version 34.0.0 and newer currently have a bug that prevents them from rebooting to userspace fast boot, causing the attached issue: The fix is to downgrade to older platform tools, like r33.0.3. I ran into this problem when reflashing Android 14 DP2 on my Pixel 6 Pro.
A Googler says they’ve “identified the root cause of this issue and are working on a fix.” As of today, the latest platform tools version does not contain this fix. Some say Android Flash Tool is unaffected; it may be using older platform tools under the hood.
PCS in Android 14 will be more secure
Private Compute Services (PCS), the open source part of Android’s “Private Compute Core” that handles downloading models from the Internet, is adding support for performing model downloads in a VM on Android 14. This would make model downloads even more secure in Android 14!
Add VM permission to PCS for future usecases in Android 14.
<!-- This permission is for PCS to use pKVM for protected model downloads. -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.MANAGE_VIRTUAL_MACHINE" />
The caveat with this is that this requires devices to support the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF). Currently, on Android 13, only the Tensor Pixels support this. On Android 14, we may see this supported by Linux 6.1-based Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (?) products.