How to Troubleshoot & Replace Samsung AP4334981 / DA63-02284B Refrigerator Ice Cube Tray

Samsung refrrigerator. it started when the setting was on cubes but was putting out crushed ice. then months later the water refill was running down into the ice bucket causing a massive block of ice in the bucket. look closely at the first two or three cubes in the ice tray after they unload. mine were not dumping and staying in the tray. when the water refill kicked on it would overfill the tray (because of the leftover cubes remaining in the tray) and would run down into the ice bucket and the problem would repeat itself over and over. the new flex tray from appliance parts was the fix. the old one had lost some of its flex and was not letting go of those first three cubes causing the problem. installed new tray and now have nice full cubes in my ice tea. the parts arrived in TWO days!! thanks APP 

We awoke to a flood in the kitchen. I traced the flood back to the fridge door ice dispenser. I found the ice tray frozen in a sheet of ice in the bottom of the ice container. I took two Philips screws out of the front of the ice maker then slid the entire unit forward to detach it. I unplugged the ice maker and let it thaw out on the front porch in the sun. The round protuberance at the back of the ice tray was broken off completely. I ordered a replacement for my Samsung fridge from AppliancePartsPros.com on one day and it came the next day! I replaced the ice tray in the ice maker and put it back together. My family and I now have an operating Ice maker again. It actually works better, so I think it may have been defective all along. I didn't even have left over screws! LOL! 

I started by ordering the temp sensor and replaced the sensor in the fridge which did not resolve the issue. Replacing the sensor was very simple. I just had to remove everything from the refrigerator compartment and then remove 6 screws to pull the back panel off. There were some additional screws on the back side which needed to be removed to allow me to replace the temp sensor. This is a fairly cheap part but I recommend testing the sensor with a multi-meter and checking the Ohms while the temp changes. There are videos on how to check them online, they are also referred to as thermisters. All mine checked out OK. In the end I also started having issues with my freezer and fridge warming up then freezing again so I ordered a main control board (Part # DA41-00293A) which solved the issue. Replacing that was super easy as well. 

Replaced the ice cube tray. 

Very simple repair. remove two phillips screws, unplug the icemaker, unclip the tray unit and install the new one. 

I replaced the sensor bracket and cover plus the ice cube tray 

Went to “you tube” for instructions. The advice was great . 

I remember from when I was a kid that my father replaced the ice tray because it would lose its slipperiness from the teflon coating wearing away over time and faster with hard water. I did not initially have a softener when I got this refrigerator but put one in about 4 years ago. I researched this same problem with my ice maker and sure enough, the symptoms I was seeing with my ice maker were the same. I replaced the ice tray portion (about a $3.49 part) after washing the new tray out with soapy water and sure enough, we have whole cubes again. The problem occurs when the coating is almost gone at which point the bond between the cubes and the tray becomes much stronger and the twisting action of the tray breaks the cubes into small pieces before they even hit the storage container. 

Had to replace the icemaker head because the arm was broken and the ice cube tray had cracked in half by the frozen ice. 

First I removed the 2 screws holding the ice maker to the roof of the freezer and slid the maker out. Then I slid the tray tipping motor out of the maker assembly while depressing the holding tab. With that the old cracked tray came out of it's mounting hole and I reassembled the whole thing in reverse order.