How to unlock my washing machine Hi. So Im a tourist and we live in an apartment. We just tried doing the laundry using our Samsung Washing machine. We cant open the door lid after it finished. Theres a lock light in the screen though. Kindly assist me if you can
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Have you tried unplugging it?
If that doesn’t work you could try running a short cycle and see if it unlocks when that cycle is done.
Or maybe when you run the short cycle see if you can hit the pause button while the add garment light is on and see if it unlocks.
Usually when that happens there still tiny bit of water left. Just wait a bit
Well, a locked door usually mean the program/cycle haven’t completed yet, or the machine thinks there’s standing water in there.
Try selecting e.g. a spin cycle (sentrifugering), let that complete and see what happens.
If emptying it through a cycle doesnt work, you should be able to drain it(onto the floor, so keep towels, etc handy) by removing the filter. The ones Ive had was bottom right on the front, you need to open it and pull out a cylinder like filter.
Do u know the washing machine model?
UPDATE: Hi all, thank you for your assistance! It already worked. I pressed the centrifugere and waited. Thanks!!
You do realize you could’ve just put the words into a translator instead of posting it on here.
Ha, why is one command in Swedish and the rest in Norwegian?
I feel your pain, my old LG clothes washer was equally cryptic and if it had a power outage or other error before draining the water there was no obvious way to get the door open, the trick after lots of trial and error was to power it on, not touch the program selector button, turn the spin cycle button until the display said 0 rpm and hit go to make the machine just drain the water and unlock. I don’t think it was even described in the instruction manual.
I wonder why they had to make it so damn cryptic, would it be so hard for them to put a dedicated “empty water and unlock door” button on there? Imagine the panic if you discover your phone, wallet or cat inside the machine with no way to get the door open…
You need to break the glass with a hammer
Here’s something that helped me when i first moved here..
The Google Translate app has a live picture translation mode… in that it can translate from images.
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Your welcome 😀
Just press the Smörebröd buttun…
A hammer. It works.
Just come closer and clearly say: drit
It will voice activate …
“Drit” it’s Norwegian “unlock” or “sesame open”.
I’m having real similar recent transplant problems. Anyone know how to make one of these things “dry” without washing first?
If nothing works, just take out the cord/cut the power. Wait for about 10 seconds and voila. It’s open 👌