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The back wall inside the fresh food compartment of a refrigerator, a small temperature sensor clipped beside the air vents, shelves soft in front of it.

Samsung refrigerator
showing 8E

8E refers to the sensor on the ice maker located in the freezer.

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  • Sensor circuit
  • Controls and sensors
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What 8E
actually means.

8E refers to the sensor on the ice maker located in the freezer. Samsung names it as a sensor error and lists it with the codes that call for service.

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What to do when 8E shows on the refrigerator

Kind of codeSensor circuit

A temperature sensor reading outside its range, or the wiring to it. The reading is confirmed with a meter before any part is ordered.

Usually leads toControls and sensors

A refrigerator cools to what it believes the temperature is, and a sensor reading wrong is obeyed perfectly.

Shows up asRefrigerator Freezing Food

Lettuce frozen solid and milk with ice in it, in a compartment that is not supposed to freeze.

MakeSamsung

French door refrigeration with large displays, flexible compartments and complex ice systems.

SourceSamsung US support: refrigerator error codes

Models with an ice maker in the freezer.

Before you book,
in this order.

Each step comes from Samsung's own guidance for 8E on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.

01

Write the code down before touching the panel; Samsung asks owners not to press buttons to clear codes.

02

Check whether the freezer ice maker is still producing ice.

03

Book a service visit.

Still there?

It usually turns into controls and sensors. Book with the code and the model number.

What not to do

It is not 14E, which Samsung lists separately as the ice maker sensor. Tell the technician which number you saw.

What you may
notice with it.

The refrigerator problems 8E tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.

All problems

Before you call

Refrigerator Freezing Food

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It also comes with

Leafy salad and a carton frozen solid on the top shelf of a refrigerator, ice crystals glittering on them. Problem

Refrigerator Freezing Food

5 causes, cheapest first

Where 8E usually leads

Controls and sensors.

Control board · moderate.
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Short guides that make the call quicker and the diagnosis cheaper.

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What you can check yourself

Five observations that narrow a refrigerator problem down before anyone visits

 What you can check yourself

Where the model number hides, and why nothing works without it

 Error codes

All 247 codes, by make

Samsung
refrigerators.

French door refrigeration with large displays, flexible compartments and complex ice systems.

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More Samsung codes

OF OF5E21E22EPC ER88 8840E14E85CAPAll icons flashingIce Off blinking

Sensor circuit on other makes

LG ER rSSub-Zero 10 R 00Viking E3Gaggenau Sensor faultMiele F114U-Line Zone T OpenFrigidaire OPBertazzoni E1
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A French door refrigerator with both upper doors swung open and the lower freezer drawer pulled out. Samsung builds this

French door refrigerator

Two fresh-food doors over a freezer drawer — the most common premium layout, and the one with the most to go wrong at the door line.

 A side-by-side refrigerator with a tall freezer door on the left carrying an ice and water dispenser recess. Samsung builds this

Side-by-side refrigerator

Full-height freezer beside full-height fresh food, with the ice maker and dispenser built into the freezer door.

In Samsung's own words

8E: Ice Maker (Freezer) Sensor Error
Samsung US support: refrigerator error codes

Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Models with an ice maker in the freezer.

Samsung 8E refrigerator repair,
where we come out.

The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.

All service areas

Tampa BayFL · 31 areas

OrlandoFL · 30 areas

Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas

New York MetroNY · 75 areas

HoustonTX · 36 areas

ChicagoIL · 50 areas

Los AngelesCA · 95 areas

San DiegoCA · 31 areas

San Francisco Bay AreaCA · 74 areas

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Questions
about 8E.

Can I clear 8E myself?
Write the code down before touching the panel; Samsung asks owners not to press buttons to clear codes. If it comes back, it needs a visit.
Should I press buttons to clear 8E on my Samsung?
No, Samsung asks owners not to clear codes that way, so write 8E down first and leave the panel alone. After that, see whether the bin under the freezer ice maker is still filling.
Is Samsung 8E the same code as 14E?
No, 8E is the sensor on the ice maker in the freezer, while 14E is listed separately as the ice maker sensor. Mixing the two up sends the diagnosis toward the wrong ice maker sensor.

Back to your everyday

Still showing 8E?

Book with the exact characters, the full model number, and whether it is still cooling — on a code, that is the whole starting point.

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