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title: "Samsung microwave error code C-10"
description: "Samsung microwave error code C-10: Samsung's sensor-cooking microwaves judge doneness by what the food gives off rather than by a timer, and this family is…"
url: "https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/microwave-gas-sensor/"
date_modified: "2026-09-04"
Appliance type: "Microwaves, Wall ovens"
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# Samsung microwave error code C-10

### What C-10 means on this make

Samsung’s sensor-cooking microwaves judge doneness by what the food gives off rather than by a timer, and this family is that sensor reporting. The practical symptom is sensor cooking that no longer works properly while ordinary timed cooking is fine.

### The other ways Samsung prints this one

C-10 · C-11 · C-12

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

- Unplug the microwave, or switch it off at the breaker.
- If the electronics have recently met moisture — a spill, or steam from the cooktop below an over-the-range unit — give it time to dry out before doing anything else. Otherwise wait about sixty seconds.
- Switch it back on and see whether the code returns.
- If it does, write down the exact characters. On this table the digit matters, and it is what tells a technician which sensor is reporting.

### Where this goes next

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

Gas, easy or PH sensor error

What this one means

What C-10 means on this make

Samsung’s sensor-cooking microwaves judge doneness by what the food gives off rather than by a timer, and this family is that sensor reporting. The practical symptom is sensor cooking that no longer works properly while ordinary timed cooking is fine.

The other ways Samsung prints this one

C-10 · C-11 · C-12

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

Unplug the microwave, or switch it off at the breaker.

If the electronics have recently met moisture — a spill, or steam from the cooktop below an over-the-range unit — give it time to dry out before doing anything else. Otherwise wait about sixty seconds.

Switch it back on and see whether the code returns.

If it does, write down the exact characters. On this table the digit matters, and it is what tells a technician which sensor is reporting.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is microwave 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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