Phone stuck in portrait mode, reset help?

[jerms77]

Slide out keyboard not working to text, phone hangs up. Have to text in portrait mode or phone freezes. I've never done a reset...owned phone since new when it came out in august last year. It's T-mobile windows mobile 6.1. Never been modded.

I've also got that phantom message thing going says I have 7 messages when I don't have any. Should I do a reset? Never done one before, theres nothing on the phone I care about saving except my contacts, I heard of someone saving them to their sim card? If anyone could help I've looked around the forums I've been reading for hours. New to this stuff.