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If you didn’t buy your Samsung washer in the last 18 months, it’s not yours. That annoying cycle tone will only burn your ears and sanity, not your house. Feature, not a bug.

Instead of wasting all that money making fun of Apple maybe spend it on making good washing machines? Lol

Closer than I would have liked, but my model number had an "r" instead of an "a".

It has no pill shaped display, yet. So funds will go into rnd for the refreshed design

Nice to know Samsung makes equally crappy products I don't even know about.

You’d have to be crazy to own Samsung products.

The rest of yous, quit washing your clothes like Homer makes cereal!

I swear... with Samsung, if it's not one of their good products, it's always one that catches fire.

Why oh WHY wouldn't they make the tones optional?! They're so loud

If you bought a Samsung washer more than 18 months ago, it’s probably already dead. Samsung’s appliances are generally shit.

Don't buy their refrigerators if you need a working ice maker.

So for people who had it delivered and installed because it was part of the price or purchase, how would they go about getting it back to the store?

Don't buy their refrigerators if you need a working refrigerator.

I have no fucking idea why Samsung is somehow considered the top of the heap for consumer appliances.

It's genuinely bizarre.

Don't have your Bolt EV parked right next to it. Your garage will melt right down into the earth. /s

I honestly feel like they should be barred from selling appliances because their products are so bad.

Mine are still going strong after 5 years, thankfully.

I have…. So I’ll add a little more

Samsung’s top-load washers with super speed wash are affected: the WA49B, WA50B, WA51A, WA52A, WA54A and WA55A.

Just stuff a screwdriver or something through the speaker area and pray there's nothing critical close.

They aren’t but they’re better at marketing apparently.

Some retailers will pick up returns if they delivered it first.

You can do a software update over the Internet to fix. Source: linked article from OP

Yeah, all our Samsung appliances died years ago

When I sold electronics they were by far, far and away, the most overrated company...

...and the most demanded by consumers.

You're right about the marketing. Sony did fuck all, but Sammy paid millions.

LG is superior to Samsung

im willing to bet that you have multiple things made by Samsung

I’ve gone out of my way to avoid them.

It's just money laundering scheme

My takeaway, hackers could burn down your home by attacking the Samsung update server. Or maybe even easier.

You mean that music thing that plays when the cycle is done? You can turn that off, at least on mine, I could. If I remember well, one of the buttons to select the cycle temperature or spin or something has a little symbol of a speaker next to it. You have to press and hold that button for several seconds. Works on both the washer and dryer.

They took that button away. I actually had Samsung come out to disable the sound - they couldn’t.

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This is the second time Samsung washers have had massive recalls. A few years ago they were spinning so off balance that they were destroying people’s laundry rooms. They are just made so poorly made with a bunch of bells and whistles.

It's gonna break!!!

They look pretty when new

To be fair, they do make some good products (phones tvs, ram), just their appliances suck, washers dryers microwaves stoves fridges....

All of mine want to die....

Our Samsung washer lasted less than two years back around 2011. Never. Again.

I have both. It's a case of works kn my machine!

It's about cost efficiency for me. Is a Bosch dishwasher better? Sure. In my area costs x3 . So for medium quality shit, Samsung is the way to go.

I have the dishwasher, refrigerator and inductive hob. 0 issues for years

You can turn it off. Just click chime off.

Do you ever maintain your washer? Like deep cleaning or having someone come look at it? Would you drive your car 20k miles and not wash it or change the oil?

Every appliance maker is superior to Samsung.

Whew relief, I got 7 year old stackables, figured it’d be back to the ol metal scrub board and wash bucket. No money left for new luxury devices.

>I have no fucking idea why Samsung is somehow considered the top of the heap for consumer appliances.

Competitors like Frigidaire, LG, GE, Whirlpool/Maytag/KitchenAid, aren't any better. Modern appliances are junk because it has become a race to the bottom with consumers buying appliances based on price/features not quality.

The only appliance brands I still trust to build a decent quality product are Miele, Speed Queen, and Bosch.

They took it away? I've got a slightly older front load (because they're better) and that tone would absolutely drive me insane if I couldn't turn it off.

Here I am, rocking back and forth in my padded, freshly laundered cell.

Honestly I could give quite the rant about noise pollution. I don’t understand homes where people let the smoke detectors beep endlessly. I take the batteries out of most electronic toys. The song the washer and dryer plays is so long - like 20 seconds long - and it gets stuck in your head. I’d have loved to disable it but the repairman said it would void the warranty to try. Absurdly un-user friendly to take away the mute button.