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title: "Samsung dishwasher error code OC"
description: "Samsung dishwasher error code OC: Either too much is coming in or not enough is going out, and the two are told apart by what the machine does next."
url: "https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-overflow/"
date_modified: "2026-09-04"
Appliance type: "Dishwashers"
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# Samsung dishwasher error code OC

### What OC means on this make

Either too much is coming in or not enough is going out, and the two are told apart by what the machine does next. Detergent is the free thing to eliminate first — dish soap instead of dishwasher detergent produces a tub full of foam that reads as water, and it is a mistake somebody in the household makes exactly once.

### The other ways Samsung prints this one

OC · 0C · oE

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

- Check what detergent has been used. Hand dish soap in a dishwasher produces this and a kitchen full of foam.
- Clean the filter and check the drain hose and its high loop.
- Run a rinse cycle and watch whether it drains fully.
- If it fills beyond level on a clean, correctly loaded machine, the inlet valve or the level sensing is the repair.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [dishwasher drain repair](/services/dishwasher-drain-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.

Over-level water error

What this one means

What OC means on this make

Either too much is coming in or not enough is going out, and the two are told apart by what the machine does next. Detergent is the free thing to eliminate first — dish soap instead of dishwasher detergent produces a tub full of foam that reads as water, and it is a mistake somebody in the household makes exactly once.

The other ways Samsung prints this one

OC · 0C · oE

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

Check what detergent has been used. Hand dish soap in a dishwasher produces this and a kitchen full of foam.

Clean the filter and check the drain hose and its high loop.

Run a rinse cycle and watch whether it drains fully.

If it fills beyond level on a clean, correctly loaded machine, the inlet valve or the level sensing is the repair.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is dishwasher drain 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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