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Originally Posted by meanfishy
I VERY new to building ROMs and I do not know how big is to big for a cooked ROM or how to keep from getting duplicate programs on the ROM. 
My 1st one was far from successful, and I need some expert advice.
Now that I have cooked the ROM and installed it I have some questions,
I am cooking for a Sprint Mogul 6800 I have already unlocked the phone, current ROM ver 3.57, Radio ver 3.42.xx
1: how do I know how many (Module) items I can select to be added to the ROM? For a Sprint PPC 6800 and keep the phone stable and fast? (see attachment of what I selected, and please comment) 
2: of the OEMs I loaded quite a few of them are trial versions, items you have to buy, items that have already expired there trial period, or duplicated items. when I made my selections I made sure I did not select any that had a 'Trial' in the License. I am not looking for anything to buy, en order to get the full features/ability that this phone can offer
3: some of the (Module) items have round radio buttons and others have check boxes, what is the difference and why can you only select 1 radio button and multiple check boxes?
4: I have read setting the pool affects the performance of the phone, what is the best pool setting? I know that 6 is default but I have read it being set as high as 16 and as low as 2
Attached is what I did for my ROM not knowing what I am/was doing, please comment and what I need to do for better understanding and how to create a better ROM
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Meanfishy,
I am just a beginning cook as well (Currently working on my ROM, up to try #4...) but I'll try and answer some of your questions as best I can.
1) While I know that the Apache (6700) had a limit on ROM size - It would fail to boot with ROMs that were too large - I know of no such limit with the Titan. Obviously, the more you add, the less storage space you will have, and the more stuff that runs in the background (Today screen plugins, IM programs, etc..) the slower the phone will be. I think that it comes down to "What is acceptable for your personal tastes?".
2) I've run into the same issue. Magicall, for one. It's not listed as a trial, and yet, when you load it, it is. Also, watch out for PIEPlus. It's listed as shareware, but is cracked software. (I purchased a key for it, and was unable to use my key since the software had been partially rewritten to accommodate the crack.) What can you do to avoid it? For me, I have found that keeping a build log in the folder where I store my ROMs and the selection files that made them helps. After I cook and install a ROM, I go through it and note any problems, and try to correct them in the next build.
3) The radio buttons are there to show that you can only select one option from many. For instance choosing more than one skin for FTouchFlo would cause erratic behavior and possibly a crash, therefore you are limited to a single choice. The checkboxes are there to show that you can choose as many as you want.
4) From what I have seen, this is a question of great debate. First, I can tell you that "no2chem", a noted ROM cook, has stated that he used to use a 4 MB pagepool in his ROMs, but found a value of 6 MB to yield better performance. Second, a warning. Setting it to 0 will not disable it as you might think - It will instead tell the ROM to use whatever its default is, usually from 4 to 6 MB. Also, setting it too low may or may not cause some software on your phone to malfunction. You'll have to test each program out to figure it out. Lastly, whatever you assign as the pagepool is RAM that you lose the use of for programs. Since the 6800 is already RAM starved, be careful.
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Good luck in your cooking!