My battery died and my phone was stuck at the AOKP boot animation for 30 minutes plus when I plugged it in and fired it up. I did battery pull, wipe Dalvik and cache. No success. I needed to get my check book and DueToday tasks off of my phone, but I had no way to do it. I did a Nandroid, complete wipe and attempted to restore the Nandroid. Obviously there was no success. It was still non-bootable. I did another complete wipe and jumped from AOKP 40/Franco 169 to AOKP M6/Franco 196. I then downloaded Nandroid Browser from the Play Store for free and browsed the failed Nandroid backup. After some tedious searching I was able to pull my task file and check book file from the Nandroid. I used Root Explorer by JRummey to slip the recovered files into the correct folders in the fresh install and everything is good again! I thought I had lost that crucial data, but all is good. If your phone doesn't boot, don't despair. Non-bootable or not, do a Nandroid, do a fresh install, browse the Nandroid and rescue your data.
I hope this helps fellow newbies. If any experts have a smoother way to accomplish this please share.
I hope this helps fellow newbies. If any experts have a smoother way to accomplish this please share.