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title: "Samsung dishwasher error code bE"
description: "Samsung dishwasher error code bE: A capacitive panel that thinks one of its own buttons is held down will not accept anything else."
url: "https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-button/"
date_modified: "2026-09-04"
Appliance type: "Dishwashers"
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# Samsung dishwasher error code bE

### What bE means on this make

A capacitive panel that thinks one of its own buttons is held down will not accept anything else. On a dishwasher the usual cause is what runs down the front of it: steam from the cooktop, a wet cloth left on the door, or a spill that has found its way behind the membrane.

### The other ways Samsung prints this one

bE · 6E

Samsung publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with. They mean the same thing and they are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page.

### Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the appliance’s own display. Samsung reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the same machines without one blink their cycle lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power — Samsung asks for this itself on its refrigerator and dishwasher pages, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has.

### What to do about it

- Switch the dishwasher off.
- Touch every button on the panel in turn.
- Switch it back on and see whether it responds.
- If a button is not working or the code comes straight back, the panel is the repair.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [dishwasher door latch repair](/services/dishwasher-door-latch-repair/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 506-1256](tel:+13055061256) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

Button error

What this one means

What bE means on this make

A capacitive panel that thinks one of its own buttons is held down will not accept anything else. On a dishwasher the usual cause is what runs down the front of it: steam from the cooktop, a wet cloth left on the door, or a spill that has found its way behind the membrane.

The other ways Samsung prints this one

bE · 6E

Samsung publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with. They mean the same thing and they are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page.

Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the appliance’s own display. Samsung reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the same machines without one blink their cycle lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power — Samsung asks for this itself on its refrigerator and dishwasher pages, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has.

What to do about it

Switch the dishwasher off.

Touch every button on the panel in turn.

Switch it back on and see whether it responds.

If a button is not working or the code comes straight back, the panel is the repair.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is dishwasher door latch repair, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 506-1256](tel:+13055061256) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

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