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title: "Samsung dishwasher error code tE"
description: "Samsung dishwasher error code tE: The sensor that tells the machine how hot the water is has stopped giving a believable answer."
url: "https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-temperature-sensor/"
date_modified: "2026-09-04"
Appliance type: "Dishwashers"
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# Samsung dishwasher error code tE

### What tE means on this make

The sensor that tells the machine how hot the water is has stopped giving a believable answer. It matters more on a dishwasher than people expect, because the drying and sanitizing parts of a cycle are decided by that number. Dishes that come out cool and wet with no other complaint very often start here.

### 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

- Empty the machine, add detergent and run a normal cycle.
- Note whether drying has also got worse; that pairing is characteristic.
- If it repeats, cut power at the breaker and have the sensor measured.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [temperature sensor replacement](/services/temperature-sensor-replacement/), 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.

Temperature sensor error

What this one means

What tE means on this make

The sensor that tells the machine how hot the water is has stopped giving a believable answer. It matters more on a dishwasher than people expect, because the drying and sanitizing parts of a cycle are decided by that number. Dishes that come out cool and wet with no other complaint very often start here.

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

Empty the machine, add detergent and run a normal cycle.

Note whether drying has also got worse; that pairing is characteristic.

If it repeats, cut power at the breaker and have the sensor measured.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is temperature sensor replacement, 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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