Advanced Question - smarthub MF275 reset or telnet in?

Hi, I'm experiencing a really weird problem. I cannot reset my router it's an MF275. When I log into the router admin panel I can enter my username and password then it starts to load the normal index page (http://192.168.0.1/index.html#home) then fails, sometimes this page loads other times it doesn't. I have tried to reset the router I've done all the usual reset procedures. For example, pressing the reset switch on the bottom, taking the battery out and performing a 30 - 30 - 30 reset procedure, but nothing is working. 

When the page does occasionally load and I click on Advanced settings expecting to be able to go to the reboot router or restore to factory defaults it just never finishes loading. I open the Google developer in Chrome and take a look at the network tab I see that it is trying to connect to this URL. http://192.168.0.1/goform/goform_get_cmd_process?isTest=false&cmd=sms_capacity_info&_=1588880150656. every 10 seconds, But none of the requests ever come back.  Seems like the virtual machine that runs the router software is not failing. 

I was wondering, and I know this is a longshot, is it possible to telnet into the router so that I can issue commands directly from the command line to reset it instead of using the web interface it seems to be broken. When I telnet to 192.168.0.1. I just get connection refused , never being able to enter a user name and password. Need to get rid of this router just because it needs to be reset.

PS another really weird behavior and possibly a security issue with the router is sometimes it'll use my password that I set when I set up the router and other times it all except the default admin password.

This is a screen shot of what I see trying to open the Admin page: