When I turn on my phone it goes to the virgin mobile start up screen then to the android screen for awhile then the screen goes black. The screen is back lit and the hardware button lights are on.

My phone is rooted using gingerbreak 2.0 I am using link2sd and I am running the stock rom.

I was installed some apps and the installation was hung up so I canceled and retried it a few times it still didn't work so I gave up. Then I was looking at app on the market and tried downloading one to my phone and it also got hung up then I did a manual reboot and my phone started getting stuck at the black screen.

If at all possible I would like to save my settings and apps which are on my phone.

Updates
I am able to boot into custom recovery.