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Root Phone stuck at boot(kind of)

I'm sorry this is a long read but I really need help. If you can help I will be forever in your debt. Thanks!

Hi I have a rooted pantech breakout. The main reason I have it rooted is the fact that I wanted to get rid of all the bloatware on the phone. I deleted stuff like need for speed and some verizon things like vz tones, navigate and something called login. Well, my phone has been acting weird since then. Things just freeze up and a lot of the time I get a message saying MoxierEasEngine has stopped working. Well today it said that I had a blank SD card so I just took out the sd card and put it back in. When it rebooted, everything was so laggy and everything that I would open would force close. I rebooted like three times and still no cigar. So eventually, I decided to factory reset because I didn't have much that I cared about stored. I think my phone had around 10-15 percent battery left when I started the restore. So I did the restore and it was working and I got the audio file played when you first turn it on. I assumed everything was working. Then it just went to a black screen. I held power for like 30 seconds and pressed every button on the phone and nothing happened. I pulled the battery and rebooted. I got the pantech logo and I heard the boot sound. Well I forgot to mention something, a couple days back I installed a boot logo manager and tried to change my boot logo. It said it was changed but whenever I had booted at the time it was just a grey screen. It was a nuisance but I could live with it. Well back to the story, After the pantech logo and the sound, I get the same grey screen for around 30 seconds. Then the screen just goes black and I get no response from any buttons. I have done this process about 5 times and it has not worked. I have tried going into recovery, holding power, home, and volume down and it does the same thing.

If anyone could give me some help, I would be eternally grateful. I really need my phone back. If I need to replace every single system file I will! Thank you so much for taking your time to read this.
 
you could try installing mtmichaelson's cwm recovery then install the broken out rom if you want a fully debloated phone.
 
Try booting it while holding the back button. That should get you into fastboot mode. From there you can flash a custom recovery.

EDIT: I realized this stuff isn't necessary, but i'm keeping it here because you may find it interesting-

In order to figure this out, it's important to know Android's partition structure:
/data holds your personal data
/cache is a cache (for temp files)
/system holds system data that should not be deleted
/mnt/sdcard is the sd card's mount point

When you do a factory reset, it simply reformats the /data partition. The system partition is left unaffected because it is assumed that, if you have a normal, non-rooted phone, deleting the /data partition but keeping the /system will reset all your data.

However, if you've been deleting apps from /system/app, they will not be restored, because, remember, "factory reset" does not touch the system partition.

To remedy this, you can either install the custom CWM recovery and flash a new ROM, which includes a different /system partition (and wipes the old one), or you could manually go into /system on your phone and restore any apps that you think may have caused this strange behavior (the "login" app is probably important.)
 
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