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title: "Samsung washer: Self Clean reminder"
description: "Samsung washer self clean — samsung washer: Self Clean reminder: samsung washer — reported by blinking lights rather than by a code."
url: "https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/washer-lights-self-clean-reminder/"
date_modified: "2026-09-04"
Appliance type: "Washers"
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# Samsung washer: Self Clean reminder

### What the appliance is actually reporting

The Self Clean light blinks after a certain number of washes to say the drum cleaning cycle is due. Nothing is wrong and nothing needs to be done today, but it is worth running when it is convenient — in this climate a drum that never gets cleaned develops a smell that is much harder to remove than to prevent.

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

On the cycle lights, on a machine with no digital display. Samsung publishes what each combination means, and on those models the combination is the entire diagnosis — it disappears the moment the power is cut. Write it down or photograph the panel before switching anything off. Samsung adds one caution of its own and it saves service calls: on some models the lights blink to show cycle status, so treat it as an error only if the machine is misbehaving as well.

### Which machines this one applies to

Models with no digital display, which report by blinking their cycle lights. Samsung itself flags that several of its codes mean two different things depending on the model — *dC*, *3E* and *BE2* on washers, and *1E* on dishwashers — so the model number is what settles which reading applies to your machine. It also publishes nothing at all for freezers, ice makers and range hoods, which is why those appliances have symptom pages here and no code pages.

### What to do about it

- Run the Self Clean cycle with the drum empty when it suits you.
- Leave the door ajar between washes; it is the single best thing you can do for a front loader in Florida.
- No service is needed.

### 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.

Models with no digital display, which report by blinking their cycle lights

What the lights are telling you

What the appliance is actually reporting

The Self Clean light blinks after a certain number of washes to say the drum cleaning cycle is due. Nothing is wrong and nothing needs to be done today, but it is worth running when it is convenient — in this climate a drum that never gets cleaned develops a smell that is much harder to remove than to prevent.

Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the cycle lights, on a machine with no digital display. Samsung publishes what each combination means, and on those models the combination is the entire diagnosis — it disappears the moment the power is cut. Write it down or photograph the panel before switching anything off. Samsung adds one caution of its own and it saves service calls: on some models the lights blink to show cycle status, so treat it as an error only if the machine is misbehaving as well.

Which machines this one applies to

Models with no digital display, which report by blinking their cycle lights. Samsung itself flags that several of its codes mean two different things depending on the model — dC, 3E and BE2 on washers, and 1E on dishwashers — so the model number is what settles which reading applies to your machine. It also publishes nothing at all for freezers, ice makers and range hoods, which is why those appliances have symptom pages here and no code pages.

What to do about it

Run the Self Clean cycle with the drum empty when it suits you.

Leave the door ajar between washes; it is the single best thing you can do for a front loader in Florida.

No service is needed.

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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