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title: "Samsung washer error code SDC"
description: "Samsung washer error code SDC: One of the few codes on any appliance that is almost always exactly what it says."
url: "https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/washer-detergent-drawer/"
date_modified: "2026-09-04"
Appliance type: "Washers"
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# Samsung washer error code SDC

### What SDC means on this make

One of the few codes on any appliance that is almost always exactly what it says. The drawer has a definite click when it is home, and anything short of that — a drawer pushed until it looks shut, or one that will not go home because of dried detergent in the runners — reads as open. It is worth cleaning the drawer and its housing while it is out, because the residue that stops it closing is also what blocks the dispensing.

### The other ways Samsung prints this one

SDC · 5DC

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

- Pull the drawer right out and push it firmly back until it clicks.
- If it will not go home, take it out and wash the runners and the housing; dried softener sets like glue.
- Start a cycle and confirm the code has gone.
- If a clean, properly seated drawer still reports open, the switch behind it is the repair.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [diagnostic visit](/services/diagnostic-visit/), 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.

Detergent drawer error

What this one means

What SDC means on this make

One of the few codes on any appliance that is almost always exactly what it says. The drawer has a definite click when it is home, and anything short of that — a drawer pushed until it looks shut, or one that will not go home because of dried detergent in the runners — reads as open. It is worth cleaning the drawer and its housing while it is out, because the residue that stops it closing is also what blocks the dispensing.

The other ways Samsung prints this one

SDC · 5DC

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

Pull the drawer right out and push it firmly back until it clicks.

If it will not go home, take it out and wash the runners and the housing; dried softener sets like glue.

Start a cycle and confirm the code has gone.

If a clean, properly seated drawer still reports open, the switch behind it is the repair.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is diagnostic visit, 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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