--- title: "Start from what it is doing, because that is what you actually have." description: "LG refrigerator problems — symptoms archive." url: "https://lgmiami.support/symptoms/" date_modified: "2026-09-05" --- # Symptoms archive ## Start from what it is doing, because that is what you actually have. Most people do not have a code. They have a refrigerator that is not cold, a dryer that will not dry, or a washer stopped full of water. These pages start there, name the likely causes in the order they are worth checking, and link to the code the machine would show if it had one. 20 — symptom pages 70 — codes behind them 5 — families LG publishes codes for 2 — that publish nothing at all ## What it is doing Each page separates the checks that cost nothing from the ones that need a technician, and says which of LG's codes belong to it. No symptoms are published yet. ## Four things that look like a breakdown and are not **Demo mode** on a refrigerator: lit, responsive, and not cooling by design. **Sabbath mode** on an oven, which holds a temperature and disables the controls. **H5** on a cooktop, which means the glass is hot rather than that anything is wrong. And a **recirculating range hood**, which was never going to remove steam and is working exactly as installed. Between them these account for a real share of the calls we take, and all four are free to rule out. ## Where the symptom page is the whole archive LG publishes no error codes for its range hoods, and its wine cellar reports through the refrigerator control set. On those two the symptom page is not a way in to a code — it is the whole diagnosis, and it is written that way rather than borrowing a table from the appliance next door. A hood is a motor, a capacitor, a switch, two lamps and a duct, and none of it reports. ## Write it down before you cut the power What the machine is reporting - A code on the display, written down exactly — including the letter in front of it. - On a refrigerator, hold Freezer Temperature and Express Frz together for three seconds to bring the last code back. - On a laundry machine with no numbers, count a full blink sequence and photograph it. - Do not cut the power first. A code that has been reset is information nobody has. The model number, off the appliance - Refrigerators: inside, on the left wall of the fresh food compartment. - Washers and dryers: inside the door opening, or on the back panel. - Ranges and wall ovens: on the frame behind the door, or under the cooktop. - Dishwashers: on the edge of the door, visible when it is open. ## Or look the code up directly Every string LG publishes for a condition is on one page, so whichever spelling you searched for is the right one. ## Force the refrigerator to show its last code Hold **Freezer Temperature** and **Express Frz** together for three seconds. LG documents it, and it matters after a power cut, because the display clears on its own and the condition does not. A code that has been reset is information nobody has. ## Questions about reading a symptom There is no code at all. Is that worse? — Not usually. Plenty of real problems show nothing — a blocked dryer duct, a loaded dishwasher filter, a door that has stopped sealing. A symptom with no code often points at something mechanical, which is generally the cheaper half of this trade. The code cleared by itself. Should I still call? — Write down what it was and watch it. A code that came from a power event and never returns is not a repair. One that comes back — even a week later — is the same condition and it is worth acting on while it is intermittent rather than after. Can I keep using it meanwhile? — It depends what it is doing. A hood that has lost a lamp, yes. A microwave that starts on its own, no — that is unplugged today. We will tell you plainly which yours is when you call. ## Why the symptom comes before the code ### The code archive is no use until you have a code An error code is excellent information and most people do not have one. What they have is a machine doing something, and the job of these pages is to turn that into something a technician can act on — which of LG’s codes it would raise, which checks are free, and which cause is most likely in a house on this coast. ### What this climate changes Nine wet months a year is hard on door seals, defrost drains and dryer ducts, and those three sit behind a large share of the calls we take. A gasket that would last a decade elsewhere hardens sooner here; a defrost drain ices sooner; and a dryer vent hood corrodes half open and packs with lint. None of that is a defect in the machine. It is what this climate does to a machine that is working. ## Tell us what it is doing, and what the panel shows. If there is no display, tell us which lights are blinking and how many times. That is a diagnosis on this make, not a description. --- **[Read full article: Symptoms archive](https://lgmiami.support/symptoms-archive/)**