--- title: "Samsung washer error code OC" description: "Samsung washer error code OC: The opposite of the filling error, and the more urgent of the two." url: "https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/washer-overflow/" date_modified: "2026-09-04" Appliance type: "Washers" --- # Samsung washer error code OC ### What OC means on this make The opposite of the filling error, and the more urgent of the two. Either the inlet valve is letting water past when it has been told to stop, or the level sensing is under-reading and the machine keeps asking for more. A valve that does not close fully will keep filling a machine that is switched off, which is why this one should not be left for a convenient day. Foam confuses the level sensing badly enough to produce this on a perfectly healthy machine, so detergent is worth eliminating first. ### The other ways Samsung prints this one OC · OE · 0E · 0C · 1 OC · 1 0C 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 - Switch the water off at the taps if the drum is filling with the machine idle. That is the one version of this code that will not wait. - Run an empty cycle with no detergent and see whether it repeats. - Check what has been going in: too much detergent, or a non-HE detergent, produces foam that reads as water. - If it repeats on a clean empty cycle, the inlet valve or the pressure sensing is the visit. ### Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is [washer leak repair](/services/washer-leak-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. Overflow error What this one means What OC means on this make The opposite of the filling error, and the more urgent of the two. Either the inlet valve is letting water past when it has been told to stop, or the level sensing is under-reading and the machine keeps asking for more. A valve that does not close fully will keep filling a machine that is switched off, which is why this one should not be left for a convenient day. Foam confuses the level sensing badly enough to produce this on a perfectly healthy machine, so detergent is worth eliminating first. The other ways Samsung prints this one OC · OE · 0E · 0C · 1 OC · 1 0C 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 Switch the water off at the taps if the drum is filling with the machine idle. That is the one version of this code that will not wait. Run an empty cycle with no detergent and see whether it repeats. Check what has been going in: too much detergent, or a non-HE detergent, produces foam that reads as water. If it repeats on a clean empty cycle, the inlet valve or the pressure sensing is the visit. Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is washer leak 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. --- **[Read full article: Samsung washer error code OC](https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/washer-overflow/)**