HELP, Touch pro dead and need texts

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I have Juicy rom installed on my touch pro but it froze up on me. That wasn't too big of a deal so I soft reset the phone. However, now the phone boots, but the signal bar is completely zero. It actually has a little exclamation point on the bottom right of the icon. On top of that, the touchflo3d never loads. I see the htc logo on the today screen, but that's it. I can access the start menu, but my contacts app displays no contacts.

I know I can hard reset and get over it, but I got a text just a few minutes ago that I wasn't able to read yet and it's from my boss. I can go to Start-Messages-text messages, and see part of the message in the preview, but I when I click on it, it shows the wait icon and just freezes. Is there any other way to fix this problem or just see that one message??