Lumia 822 Wont Boot up

I recently put on a digitizer for my Nokia lumia 822 and a new battery, but when i try to start my phone up it gets stuck on the NOKIA screen.. its been there for over a half hour how do i fix this?

try doing a soft reset first:
hold the pwr & vol- buttons until it vibrates upon rebooting, then release the pwr button, holding the vol- until you see a (!) on your screen. then release the vol- and wait about 10-15 seconds and see if it reboots.
if that doesn't work, then try doing a hard reset (this will completely wipe all data on the device):
hold the pwr & vol- buttons until it vibrates upon rebooting, then release the pwr button, holding the vol- until you see a (!) on your screen. then release the vol-
immediately then in sequence, vol+, then vol-, then pwr, then vol-
this should then start the gears, resetting the device.
let me know if that does it for you.

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