How Do I Change The Water Filter In My Samsung Refrigerator

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The Dreaded Dead Water Filter

Ah, the dreaded "dead filter" icon—a glaring red symbol disfiguring the elegant face of your Samsung refrigerator. Y'all could ignore it; it won't hurt the refrigerator. But who knows what could be swimming around inside that kludged filter?

Besides, the thing is like a chipped tooth; you but can't ignore it. If you are like me, you might feel a little intimidated by the prospect of changing the filter. Fearfulness not. I'll show you how.

These directions are for the Samsung RS265TDRS specifically. So, if y'all have another model, the details may differ a bit. Still, some things, similar the advisability of shutting off the h2o to the unit first, are universal.

How to Supersede a Samsung Refrigerator Water Filter

Have a replacement filter handy.
Shut off the water source to your refrigerator, most likely under your kitchen sink.
Locate the filter compartment in the bottom right-hand section of the door's interior.
Remove the vegetable bin if necessary for access.
To remove old filter, grasp the ridge on the outward surface. It should exist vertical or locked.
Turn 1-quarter turn counter-clockwise and pull out.
Insert new filter and plow one-quarter turn clockwise to lock in identify.
Run h2o dispenser for at least xxx seconds to purge air and impurities.
Reset the filter low-cal by belongings down the h2o selector switch for three seconds.

Have a Replacement Filter Handy

Offset, the replacement filter. You lot may find one equally nearby as your local dwelling-improvement shop. But y'all won't find the all-time deal in that location. It may have a few days to get the replacements in your hot lilliputian hands if you follow my option, just ordering online saved me about 40%. I call back that the accented best prices are at specialty sites, just I went with Amazon.com, which was easy to bargain with and very nearly as inexpensive. I saved more than by buying a three-pack.

You need to know the part number. Information technology's in your transmission, but if your fridge is the RS265TDRS, and so you demand filter DA29-00020B.

The filter location inside the refrigerator.

Yous are looking at the lesser of the right-paw (refrigerator) section of the unit, with the door open. The vegetable bin at the very bottom has been removed and you are looking at the tiptop of the filter facing you on the lower right. That'southward where they hide the thing.

Find your water shut-off valve and shut the water off. — Observe your h2o shut-off valve and close the h2o off.

Shut Off the Water Source to Your Fridge

Call up to shut off the water. That blurry, blobby matter in the middle of the photograph to a higher place is a shut-off valve. Look for yours. This one is under my kitchen sink, and that'south a popular location. But expect for likely candidates, plough them off, and check whether the water dispenser is still doing its thing. If not, you are articulate for take-off.

If worse comes to worst, you can e'er turn the water off at the meter. This is like shooting fish in a barrel simply may require a special tool.

Removing the old filter and installing the new one is easy. — Removing the old filter and installing the new one is like shooting fish in a barrel.

Locate the Filter

Removing the filter is—as the kids say—crazy simple. Just grasp the ridge on the outward surface. Information technology should be vertical, which is the 'locked' position. Turn one-quarter turn counter-clockwise (so the top moves to the left), and pull it out.

Curlicue to Go on

Run the Water Before Use

Once you lot've installed the new filter (and replaced the vegetable bin), there'southward merely i major step. Run the water dispenser for 30 seconds or more (the official video below says five minutes) to purge any air or impurities that may take gotten into the system. In my example, quite a lot of air got in there, spraying me with h2o when I first ran the dispenser. Better yous than your dinner invitee!

This commodity is accurate and true to the best of the author's knowledge. Content is for informational or entertainment purposes but and does not substitute for personal counsel or professional advice in business concern, financial, legal, or technical matters.

Maro Plathe on June eleven, 2020:

What if I left the cap on and now stuck in there?

Pete in San Diego on May 24, 2020:

I have a filter that I can't budge, it won't turn or come up out, tried several times with force. whatsoever tips, its on the lower right side as indicated in your diagram. model RS25J500DSR/AA How can you let me know, I don't e'er visit this page or possibly find it again for an respond. pls email copy coastalsdr@gmail.com thanks Pete

ANgela on February 26, 2020:

Thanks for your quick response!

We've had the fridge awhile and usually change out the filter when the water starts to gustatory modality funny. We have replaced the ice machine motor at one fourth dimension a few years agone considering it stopped making ice.

Other than that, I'll look into testing the water.

Doc Snowfall (author) from Camden, South Carolina on Feb 24, 2020:

Hello, Angela--yes, the light is supposed to stay on. Only it should turn blueish when the filter is replaced and the lines purged, from the cherry color indicating the demand for a filter change.

I don't know why you oasis't seen the indicator turn blood-red. Have you had the refrigerator long? (I'thousand guessing 'yes' since you say that it's the same model--and that model is no longer anything close to new.) And do you alter the filter regardless?

Maybe your water supply is unusually make clean, or maybe the sensor/control system that should plough on the indicator isn't working properly in some respect. Practise y'all take whatever other reason for concern about the water quality, or the operation of the frig? If so, there are quite a few options for having the water tested that you could pursue.

ANgela on February 23, 2020:

I noticed in your success photo, the filter low-cal was still on? Is it supposed to nevertheless stay on? I have the same model refrigerator just my filter light has never turned red...(?)

Doc Snowfall (writer) from Camden, South Carolina on October 15, 2018:

Perhaps y'all don't, if it's never caused y'all issues. To be honest, I never checked the necessity of that step, assuming that not doing so created the danger of leakage. But perhaps in that location'due south a check valve built in to the fixture that renders that unnecessary.

Only I'thou curious; if y'all've already done this many times, what prompted you lot to read an article on how to it?

Cil on October 12, 2018:

Why must I close off the water source to the dispenser? I've changed information technology many times and never knew to do that.

Doc Snow (author) from Camden, South Carolina on February 01, 2018:

Well, that's a new 1 on me, Doris. If it is truly 'hot'--not just warmish--then you may accept a really serious problem, and I'd detect a repair shop, fast.

Withal, if it'southward but sort of warmish I would:

1) Make sure that the frig hadn't been accidentally been reset in a style that turned off refrigeration. (For example, there is a 'showroom mode' that does that; it may also be possible that the temperature was reset too high.) Consult your manual on settings; if you lot don't take a paper copy, yous should be able to download information technology from the Samsung website. (There's a label on the frig giving the model number; apply that to make sure you take the correct manual.)

two) If all the settings seem to be correct, I'd let some fourth dimension for the water in the reservoir to cool, and then recheck. Say, a half hour?

I don't believe there's any dissever refrigeration for the water; I remember it works off the main coils that cool the refrigerator itself. If that's right, then after a one-half 60 minutes, you lot'll probably notice that the chief part of the frig isn't cooling, either. (That is, you'll notice it's warming upward.) If you can't identify a problem with settings, as in footstep one, and so you'll probable take to call a repair shop.

Doris Templeton on February 01, 2018:

After irresolute the filter water is hot. What do I do?

Doctor Snow (author) from Camden, S Carolina on January 03, 2018:

Thank you for asking, Ritzsplit!

The short answer is, I tin can't tell for sure. First question: is the cartridge now leaking water? If non, that'southward clearly hopeful. If it is, and so obviously it'south now bad and needs to be replaced.

2nd thing: either manner, plow off the water, and see if you can remove the filter--by which I hateful 'remove it in one piece.' If you can, that's another good sign.

If it comes out, simply in two pieces, so you lot demand a new filter, of course, just at least you know where yous are. And hopefully, you lot'll have no problem with the reinstall.

On the other manus, if it doesn't want to come out--I'm imagining a scenario here where the exterior function of the filter merely spins--then you accept the choice of attempting to remove the $.25 separately, DIY mode, or calling a repair store. I hesitate to recommend the first pick, every bit there's considerable potential downside.

Tertiary thing: if the filter does come up out in 1 piece, give it a skilful inspection to see if you lot can spot any impairment. Look carefully, and recollect hard about what you see. If you accept another filter handy, you may want to compare the two. (Unless you lot're a lot nerdier about this than I am, you lot don't accept a clear thought of what the concern finish of the filter is *supposed* to look like.)

So if there'southward 1) no leakage, 2) the filter comes out OK, three) looks all correct under inspection, and iv) goes back in OK (and locks in place every bit it is supposed to exercise), so I'd say you've dodged the bullet on this little incident.

Proficient luck, and happy troubleshooting!

Ritzspit on January 03, 2018:

When irresolute the water filter I turned it clockwise by mistake have I done any impairment

jimenez on September 22, 2017:

thanks

Doctor Snow (author) from Camden, South Carolina on September 09, 2017:

Lol--thanks, Lou! I would certainly appreciate the update.

Lou on September 06, 2017:

Thanks for the answer. He yet hasn't tried anything because he's waiting for "Dad" to come down and have care of it! I thought the same, some type of narrow tweezers or long olfactory organ vice grips. Maybe a stiff wire aptitude in to a minnie claw on the end. I'll study the results when I exercise it. Thanks again. Lou

Dr. Snow (author) from Camden, South Carolina on August 22, 2017:

Hi, Al. My guess would be that the filter isn't seated correctly. I'd effort removing then reinstalling it. You lot should be able to experience information technology click into place. If you're sure it'southward installed correctly and is fully seated in place, and there's yet no flow, reinstall the old filter to run into if that restores the flow. If it does, then yous have good reason to believe that there's a problem with the new filter itself. One last caveat: allow time for any air in the filter and tubing to be expelled. Exist patient testing that--it's worth a few extra minutes to be sure that the new filter really *is* the trouble!

But information technology's also possible that something else has coincidentally gone incorrect at the same time--it does happen sometimes, and when it does it can be pretty crazy-making. A couple of previous commenters take had related problems; you may desire to scroll down a bit, run into if their difficulties sound like yours, and possibly try my suggestions to them. (Equally of this writing, the first one is fourth dimension-lined 'two years ago.' It's not that far.)

Al Phillips on August xx, 2017:

I inverse the filter, turned the h2o back on, reset the filter but no water. Question, Why no water?

Doc Snowfall (writer) from Camden, South Carolina on Baronial 07, 2017:

...and I can encounter that yesterday's response occurred with a connectivity problem, as well, equally clearly my sign-in didn't 'take'. Oh, well, joys of living in the country!

Physician Snow on August 06, 2017:

Hullo, Lou, sad nigh the delay in responding--connectivity problems. Especially sorry because I don't have as well much to offer on this question. As mentioned beneath, we've moved and no longer ain this frig. I'd endeavor gripping tools, like vise grips, especially needle nose ones.

Lou on July xxx, 2017:

Son's water filter elevation remained in the cylinder when he turned counter clock-wise and removed. What tin can you lot utilize to get that piece out of the cylinder. The new filter already has this piece. Cheers. Lou

Medico Snowfall (writer) from Camden, Southward Carolina on March 05, 2017:

Quite possibly, Kevin. I no longer ain the model--we moved in December--but this is something manufacturers do seem to practice. I'thousand sure they will all the same need to support existing models, though, then I wouldn't be too worried.

Kevin on March 04, 2017:

Has Samsung inverse this filter? I had no issues getting these filters in for five years simply now I cannot become the new one in. I noticed that the middle connectedness is larger now with an O-ring. The last i I removed did non take this.

Doctor Snowfall (author) from Camden, South Carolina on March 03, 2017:

Bob, that'due south a good question, and thank you for request it. The short answer, unfortunately, is "I don't know."

My first concern would exist decreased water menstruation through the filter. I don't think y'all'd burn out any pumps, since the water pressure level from the feed line is what feeds the system, just could decreased flow lead to any problems 'downstream' in the arrangement? I doubt it, only tin can't be sure.

Secondly, is it possible that a kludged filter could become a hosting spot for leaner or other nasties? Once more, I don't really know.

Any pros out there with more concrete knowledge to address Bob's question?

Bob on February 26, 2017:

What is the outcome if I don't replace the h2o filter? Tap water in my municipality is odorless and e'er tastes fresh.

Doc Snowfall (author) from Camden, South Carolina on December 16, 2016:

Rose, did y'all catch that last petty point?

"Note that your filter icon will even so exist red subsequently you have finished, as shown in the photograph above. To reset it, press and hold the water selector switch for iii seconds."

If that doesn't do it, either the filter installed must be bad (unlikely but possible, I suppose), or at that place is a problem with the sensor, in which case you lot need a repairman.

Rose on December fifteen, 2016:

My red light not going off

CoachJenReid on November 16, 2016:

Thank you. Super helpful! Appreciate the postal service!

Doc Snow (author) from Camden, South Carolina on Nov 06, 2016:

Thanks for writing, gg, and sorry you're having troubles. I have heard of this earlier. The cure is basically force, co-ordinate to the manufacturer. A previous commenter complained of a filter that was 'also slippery' to pull out, and I suggested trying vice grips, padded with a towel or rag--but I never heard back whether that worked or non.

One thing in your comment gave me a scrap of interruption, though; you lot wrote "I can't pull the water filter out of the door." The problem being, that with this model the filter isn't in the door--as shown in photo #3, information technology's in the bottom right of the chief compartment, where the lesser crisper drawer fits around it. Perhaps yous didn't hateful literally 'the door of the fridge,' just the phrasing raised a doubt in my listen as to whether nosotros are talking near the aforementioned model or not. If not, of course, at that place is no telling whether any of the rest of the stuff in this Hub (like the chip almost the one-quarter counterclockwise turn) applies or not. So you may want to double-cheque the model number to brand sure about that.

Distressing for the delay in replying to your annotate--I've been on the road for several days, and didn't see the find. Good luck!

GG on November 06, 2016:

I can't pull the water filter out of the door. We turned off the water supply, nosotros turned the filter a quarter turn counterclockwise, and tried to pull information technology out, but information technology will not budge. We've tried many, many times. I tell you, I'm disgusted with this fridge. We have an ongoing consequence with the ice maker. It regularly crushes the ice into powdery fries instead of the cube selection my wife and I set it for. (We're a cube family; no crushed ice for united states.) At least xc% of the time I have to take out the unabridged ice compartment from the freezer and take out the cubes by hand. Anyway, has anyone else found the water filter incommunicable to remove? The thing volition not budge at all.

Doctor Snow (author) from Camden, South Carolina on October 01, 2016:

It's the the h2o flow--there's a period sensor in the dispenser department.

Ross on October 01, 2016:

Hi dose any 1 know if the indicator light is activated by h2o menses or time Thank you

Md Snow (writer) from Camden, South Carolina on September 02, 2016:

Anna, sounds like y'all are the one who should be giving the advice hither. What do you practise to rinse the filter? And does the filter icon stay blue?

Anna on September 02, 2016:

My original water filter (Samsung DA-00020B) is working fine since 20 months at present, no smell in water, I just take it out & rince information technology every three months. Nobody who drinks the water from my refrigerator believes information technology or taste whatever smell in water, but Information technology's working great, any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!!

Doc Snow (author) from Camden, Due south Carolina on May 01, 2016:

Hi, Roxanne. I haven't had this experience. But I'd endeavour wiping the filter off to see if I tin can remove any is making it slippery, and so retry.

Make sure you are clear on the direction to turn the filter: 1/4 turn counterclockwise (top moving left--"lefty, loosie" as they say.)

If the wipe-downward doesn't do it, I'd employ a gripper such equally slip-lock pliers or vice grips to ameliorate my 'grab' on the filter. Probably best to pad the jaws with a dish towel or rag to help keep the filter from cracking, which will only make it even tougher to go out.

The tool should aid, both with the quarter turn to unlock, so with the straight pull to remove.

Proficient luck!

Roxanne on May 01, 2016:

the onetime filter is also slippery to pull out. ???

Md Snow (author) from Camden, South Carolina on March 06, 2015:

Not much idea, I'm afraid. But logically, in that location has to be a blockage. And if, every bit y'all imply, it appeared right after you made the change, then chances are that it is something to do with the installation of the filter.

(Actually, there is some other possibility, too, which is that for some reason the valve operating the water dispenser isn't working.)

But I'yard not certain where either of those two ideas takes us in terms of troubleshooting. That's where in depth knowledge of the routing of the water through the unit, and of the various characteristics of the unit and its controls would be useful.

Things to endeavour:

--Recheck the filter one more time. Sounds like there's not much chance that you missed something, only I'd recheck anyway.

--If that's OK, you could disconnect the feed at the dorsum of the unit to make sure that water is at least reaching that point. That would isolate the problem to the refrigerator itself.

--Anything look iffy on the control panel? You could try resetting information technology. I dubiety that's it, either, since I don't think information technology controls the water dispensing mechanism, but I don't know that for a fact.

--Closely inspect the area where the filter seats. (You'll probably demand a powerful calorie-free to practice it.) Is at that place anything that looks broken, or any sign of an obstruction?

Afterward that, I'm pretty much out of ideas--other than calling a service pro.

John on March 06, 2015:

Thanks for the article an I like the joking in it. Always helps to have sense of humor. I changed mine out every bit I take done once before and now no h2o comes out. I changed the filter back to the i that came out and still no water. Yes the water is on to the fridge also. Any other thought what may be wrong?

Medico Snow (writer) from Camden, South Carolina on February 23, 2015:

Hmm. Have you tried putting the sometime filter back in place? If the h2o starts working again, you will know that there is something wrong either with the new filter, or with its installation.

And--did you remember to turn the shut-off valve back on after y'all finished replacing the filter? (I know, I know!--but it's something I know I could forget.)

Brandon on February 22, 2015:

Replaced but at present water dose not work.

Physician Snow (author) from Camden, South Carolina on June 17, 2014:

Glad it helped, Ben. Thanks!

Ben on June fifteen, 2014:

Good article, helped me change mine out chop-chop and easily. Thanks for taking the time to postal service this.

Doc Snow (author) from Camden, South Carolina on April ten, 2014:

Noted.

you are on April ten, 2014:

soooooooooooooooo long winded

Doc Snow (author) from Camden, S Carolina on July 21, 2012:

So--what do you lot think? Got a amend camber on this chore? A correction maybe? Too jokey, mayhap?

Let me know--and thank you for checking out this Hub!