Anybody know how to fix the ice maker on Samsung French door refrigerators?

Probably frozen line. Put warm water in spouted condiment bottle. Squirt it up the line. Or hair dryer

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Anybody know how to fix the ice maker on Samsung French door refrigerators?

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Yeah... I think his name is Appliance Repair Man

I only buy Samsung TVs but my wife had to have that freaking refrigerator.

I'm fundamentally opposed to ice makers on refrigerator doors. They're constantly breaking. Ice bucket in the freezer is good enough for me.

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It’s a problem with the design imo. We have one and the ice gets blocked up at the top and then stops making ice bc it thinks it’s full. You have to reach your hand up into the ice maker and pry the ice out.

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Been there done that. Have had three ice makers installed and each tech said it is a known flaw of Samsung French door types.

The freezer setup is located in the general compartment so that when you open the doors humid air (especially in the South during summer) mingles in with the freezer area and gradually frosts up the freezer and jams the ice up against the “ceiling” and trapping the ice and thus no ice drops.

Jammed.

There is no repair per se, it is a design flaw with class actions filed. Alas, the ice maker is optional and not considered a part of the unit therefore not covered under lemon laws and refrigerator is not returnable.

You, I and all others with these type units are stuck with them.

However, there are work arounds. I tried prying, chipping, scraping and ice-picking. All were maddening. I also used a hair dryer and it worked great until I melted some plastic at the top and really fricked it up.

So, the last tech told me that they use a steamer (about $30 on Amazon — Performance Tool W50079 Red/Black 900W Handheld Steam Cleaner) and it works like a charm, is fast and won’t damage the ice maker guts.

Damn good refrigerator but a suck-arse ice maker.

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I'm fundamentally opposed to ice makers on refrigerator doors. They're constantly breaking. Ice bucket in the freezer is good enough for me.

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They also can quite easily get absolutely disgusting if you ever bother to look inside them

You wont ever use ice again out of one if you have seen some of them

Oh yeah, the tech advised me not to open the doors so often — wtf.

And what kind of lives do we have if we’re discussing ice makers at midnight on the Internet?

After this one goes out, or goes to the patio, I’m going back to Kitchenaid or Whirlpool.

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I'm fundamentally opposed to ice makers on refrigerator doors. They're constantly breaking. Ice bucket in the freezer is good enough for me.

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Same. I have a Samsung French door with freezer on bottom. The ice drops into a bucket on the top shelf of freezer. I’ve had too many problems with in door ice makers today ever go that route again

Tech told me that standard side-by-side, in-the-door ice makers have very few problems today. The ice maker is in the freezer, not the refrigerator. So no frosting, jamming problems.

Seems they engineered a whole new problem for sake of convenience. Ain’t that just like the French.