You got to love Murphey´s law.
After I got another x95max+ this time the 2/16 version (for below 22 Euro fast shipped).
I got problems to run it with the CE thumbrive I had from the same box but the 4/64 version. It worked when I remembered that I had to replace the 4GB img with the 2GB img.
Yesterday just when I put the pizza in the oven it hit me out of the blue, what if I use the CE thumbdrive with the 2GB from the x95max+ on the same SOC A96x F3 RGB?
So I bypass the install process what did not work with the A96x F3.
I tried, nothing happened. Oh - the reset pin, OK - push pin , plug in, release pin after the A96X logo shows for a while and CE was there, includig all my KODI settings and database. Just the remote did not work, but it still had the remote conf from the x95.
To make things short, my pizza was ready and I will do some more testing later.
Well you can swap the remotes if you like just use the right config,
The 4GB Img does not boot with a 2GB model, but the 2GB Img boots and runs with the 4GB model. Go figure.
And as to the display (whitout any other modification or drivers) of the X95 max+ stays dark while the A96x F3 RGB shows “boot” permanant and the rgb lights are on but fixed in one slow mode. So you know the box is on before you see something on the screen (projectors are like the old tube tv´s they take their time to warm up and show a picture)