Unlock Samsung Eco Bubble washing machine

Modern washing machines are gaining more and more useful and innovative functions every day, which are sometimes not so easy to figure out. A very common situation is when housewives accidentally activate the child lock and block the washing machine. It’s quite simple to turn it on and off, but if you don’t know that it’s active, you won’t be able to launch the “home assistant,” which can cause concern about the performance of the equipment. In this mode, the panel will not even work, showing only a signal with a padlock pattern. Let's look in detail at how to unlock Samsung Eco Bubble, as well as what else the control panel of household appliances can signal.

Unlock scheme

There is no single rule on how to remove the child lock, because different models of Samsung Eco Bubble washing machines have different control panels. However, this is no reason to despair, because the South Korean giant has made the controls intuitive so that you can understand it even without instructions. When the padlock icon on the panel lights up, indicating child lock, look for a sign of a lock connecting two buttons with a bracket - pressing these two keys should unlock the washing machine.

To activate or deactivate a block, you usually need to not only hold down the buttons at the same time, but also hold them down for several seconds until a beep sounds.

Sometimes devices from the Eco Bubble range are unlocked by pressing the “Temperature” and “Spin” buttons.The combination can also be with the “Rinse”, “Plus”, “Minus” and other buttons, so it is advisable to always keep the user manual at hand.

Control panel symbols

If you have sorted out the child lock, this does not mean that the rest of the control panel does not require memorization. The names of functions are often not written on washing machines, limiting themselves only to various pictograms that cannot be understood without a cheat sheet. We list the most popular values ​​that can be useful in different situations.

• Basin with Roman numeral I. This sign indicates the pre-wash mode. If the indicator is on, the mode is activated.
• Basin with Roman numeral II. This is the main wash. The sign usually lights up when one of the work cycles is starting, or when rinsing or spinning is started separately.
• A basin filled with water and laundry. This is a sign to rinse. The indicator will light up when the washing machine finishes washing and starts rinsing the laundry. It is at this stage that clean water with conditioner added to the device in advance enters the tank.
• Spiral. This icon hides the spin mode, which is activated last in the work cycle. Accordingly, the pictogram will light up only when the rinsing is completed and the spinning begins. If the indicator does not light up after rinsing, then the spin was turned off when setting up the wash.

This is where the standard washing machine signs end. However, in addition to the washing stages, there are many more icons on the control panel of Samsung household appliances that are characteristic of additional modes and functions that improve standard washing.

• T-shirt with bubbles. This is the most important feature of the series - the EcoBubble mode, which starts the generator of the foam-liquid solution.It is this substance that saturates the liquid with oxygen, which is why household chemicals turn into bubbles, penetrate clothes faster and dissolve dirt better. The function is necessary for the most contaminated things;
• Iron. Activating the easy ironing mode to ensure that the items in the drum have as few folds and creases as possible, making the clothes much easier to iron afterwards;
• Basin with Roman numeral I. We have already mentioned this pictogram, which is necessary for the prewash. If you activate this mode, do not forget that for it you should add powder to the additional compartment of the compartment for household chemicals;
• T-shirt with a stain. This is one of the most useful additional modes - intensive washing. The mode helps get rid of the most difficult stains, stubborn dirt and other things that cannot be cleaned with a standard operating cycle.

Be sure to take into account that activating additional modes may affect the program execution time; for example, intensive washing lengthens the work cycle by almost two times.

• Basin with water. Soak function to help remove stubborn stains that need to be soaked for a while.

If the washing machine supports the drying function, then there will be an additional block on the dashboard with buttons that control this function. The more expensive the equipment, the more opportunities there will be for drying.

Finally, the last group of icons includes additional options. All of them are created by manufacturers in order to make the user’s life easier:

• Watch. This is one of the most intuitive signs in washing machines, representing the delayed start mode.If you need your clothes to be washed before you come home from work, arrive from the dacha, or wake up in the morning, then you can postpone washing for a short or long time;
• Drum with fire. This is a useful self-cleaning function for the inside of the “centrifuge”, which allows you to professionally clean the washing machine. Conveniently, when the drum becomes clogged, the indicator will light up and inform the housewife that it is time to start self-cleaning to remove dirt and prevent mold from appearing;
• Crossed out speaker. This way you can turn off the sound so that the washing process occurs without sound signals that can distract or wake up the child. In different washing machines, the key combination for turning on the mode will be different, so if you have such a function in your device, then you will find the rules for activating the option in the instructions;
• Key. The pictogram informs the user that the door is tightly closed and locked.

In addition, on the control panel you can often find the washing time, water temperature, drum rotation speed during spinning, as well as information about the current stage of the work cycle.

You can monitor how much time the washing machine has left to work, because this information should be displayed on the display. If something happens to the device and the operation stops, an error code will appear on the display, which will help determine the cause of the failure.

   

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