[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] benjmiester:
I think I need some help, might have bricked my baby already :(

I'm trying to flash the factory image, after making the grave mistake of just normally trying to go into TWRP after flashing Lineage OS 15.1. I know, super wreckless stuff lol. In short, no idea what went wrong but it was asking for password even though I had removed it in OS prior to booting to TWRP so that shouldn't be there. Well so I decided to do nothing and reboot to OS. Then after it boots it's just sitting there on "android is starting forever and doesn't load the desktop. I try wiping cache and data. Goes to setup but won't complete setup. So I wipe do a data/system wipe preparing to reflash the rom via ADB only now TWRP won't load and It's basically dead. Crap. So I figure it's time to flash factory images and start over.

Now I'm trying to do that, and even that won't work right. I immediately notice a few errors in the auto flashing process:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.192]

(c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd..

C:\Windows>cd..

C:\>cd adb and fastboot

C:\ADB and Fastboot>flash-all

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'bootloader_a' (36344 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.070s]

writing 'bootloader_a'...

FAILED (remote: Flashing is not allowed for Critical Partitions

)

finished. total time: 1.085s

rebooting into bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.002s]

finished. total time: 0.003s

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'radio_a' (60428 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.792s]

writing 'radio_a'...

OKAY [ 0.609s]

finished. total time: 2.405s

rebooting into bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.003s]

finished. total time: 0.004s

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

archive does not contain 'boot.sig'

archive does not contain 'boot_other.img'

archive does not contain 'recovery.img'

archive does not contain 'system.sig'

archive does not contain 'system.sig'

archive does not contain 'vendor.sig'

archive does not contain 'vendor_other.img'

wiping userdata...

Creating filesystem with parameters:

Size: 56946044928

Block size: 4096

Blocks per group: 32768

Inodes per group: 8192

Inode size: 256

Journal blocks: 32768

Label:

Blocks: 13902843

Block groups: 425

Reserved block group size: 1024

Created filesystem with 11/3481600 inodes and 264598/13902843 blocks

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Bootloader Version...: TMZ12b

Baseband Version.....: g8998-00164-1710262031

Serial Number........: 711KPFX0757187

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checking product...

OKAY [ 0.003s]

checking version-bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.004s]

checking version-baseband...

OKAY [ 0.004s]

sending 'boot_a' (40960 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.201s]

writing 'boot_a'...

OKAY [ 0.376s]

erasing 'system_a'...

OKAY [ 0.044s]

sending sparse 'system_a' 1/4 (524284 KB)...

OKAY [ 16.731s]

writing 'system_a' 1/4...

OKAY [ 2.420s]

sending sparse 'system_a' 2/4 (524284 KB)...

I let it finish flashing all of that, and it still shows me the "Your device is corrupt. It can't be trusted and may not work properly. Visit this link on another phone" and option to press power. It naturally doesn't boot anything, just shows google logo if I hit power.

Of course those files the batch flasher was asking for are NOT in the archive zip for whatever reason. No idea where I can get them.

Any ideas what to do?