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As predicted... OTA, root preserved, no need to do any dance with the Magisk app. Everything is as it used to be, simply taking the OTA and rebooting. Lineage-23.2-20260223-NIGHTLY-pro1x with February 1st security patch installed smoothly via OTA. MindTheGapps16, and root was maintained.  Changelog: https://download.lineageos.org/devices/pro1x/changes

If I remember correctly, the imei is part of the persist.img. So sharing would mean you used the same imei, and that is not advisable...

Might be a long shot, especially given how long it's been since you posted this, but do you have a copy of the perist.img you flashed? I could need one to flash on mine as well, even if it means loosing my IMEI ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

well, here's a new wrinkle.  I had been trying all week to install Magisk the way they say to in the official instructions here: https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html#patching-images  This was really just obsession, I don't have a huge need for root anymore.  But no matter what I did, root didn't take and every time I went back to the app it didn't indicate I had root.  I was honestly about to give up, but I hate to be defeated by computers. Lol. So I tried on last hail mary. I rebooted into recovery and without reinstalling anything else, I retried my old method of flashing Magisk changing the apk extension on the Magisk file to zip and using ADB sideload. I made 2 changes. One, I eliminated the "-d" option in the sideload command which had crept in because Lineage had used it. I don't even knnow what the option does, but I never used to do it. Second, I used the file for Madisk 30.6 when before I had been using some version of Magisk 29 (I'm sloppy about keeping up with the updates with my method).  I rebooted, opened the Magisk app, let it reinstall using their recommended automatic reinstall, not the find a file and patch it option and, boom, I'm rooted.  The fun will be that I will now be curious to see if, on Monday, I retain root again with OTA.   So what happened? Still  don't know. Maybe it was a simple as updaing Magisk. I don't know why that didn't occur to me before, but it had never created a problem in the past that I was slow to update. Right now I'm thinking that may be the most likely explanation. Whatever the explanation, I'm rooted again. 😄 I think I may be  back to me lovely, boring, repetitive posts every Monday. 😉

I will do my usual OTA method next week and report back. Glad you have your 1x up and running now Hook.