I looked into fixing it and it’ll cost almost $300. I refuse to spend any money to fix a stupid Samsung. So, my wife wants a new refrigerator made by an actual reputable appliance company, but I don’t want to spend $3000. So we just live without ice, and I anticipate this will be our life until the refrigerator stops working completely.
In our fridge, the ice maker empties into a bucket that makes ice available outside the freezer door next to the water. The motor that turns the agitator in the ice bucket still works fine, so we can freeze ice in trays and then put it in the bucket and use the door like normal.
We could do that, but we don’t because even that is too much of a pain. We actually just take the ice directly from the tray when we need it.