Won't Chill or freeze. The thermostate was replaced.

You can defrost the whole thing by unplugging and let ice melt. Many store the items in the cold outside if you have right climate. Otherwise I have chipped away chuncks of ice with a hammer and be very carefully to no this gently cause you do not want to pierce the wall of freezer. After as much ice as possible has been removed, see if it seals properly when the lid is closed. If you want to melt ice without unplugging a hair blower will help melt ice. Put a few bath towels in on top of items then you do not have to go fishing to get any pieces that fall off.

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If you have built up ice inside the freezer walls, and the defrost assembly isn't functioning, this could be the problem.

Defrost the unit! Take all the food out of the freezer side, remove shelves; remove inside back panel. If there is a lot of ice build up there, then your defrost assembly is not working or your refrigerator is not a frost free unit. Defrost either by leaving the freezer door open over night or you can speed the process up with a hair dryer. Once the ice build up is dealt with, you can plug the refrigerator back in and see if it will now freeze the freezer and chill the refrigerator. If it does, and you have a defrost assembly you need to order it and have it on hand when the ice builds up again.

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need to replace the water inlet valve. the part number for this model is 4389178

could be the compresor not working,,
the thermostat has given up,,
or it needs a regas,,
what ever it needs a repair man to fix it up for you,,
sorry,,,,

I recently found out that the water supply lines are coiled up inside behind the frige on the refrigerator side moving the unit will cause those coiled up lines to shift to the freezer side of the unit, causing a freeze up,take the cardboard lower back off and move those lines further away from the freezer side of the unit, as one of those coiled up lines are to chill the water for the dispenser and the other is supply for the icemaker, this should fix your problem, becareful not to move them too far away from the freezer side as they are meant to chill the water for the dispenser

Remove back panel of freezer (where you see the frost) and melt the frost with a hair blower. The frost blocked evaporator coils are not allowing air to pass over the cold coils, so no cold air is able to get to the fresh foods section. You will most likely need to replace the defrost heater at the bottom of the evap coils to prevent this from reoccurring in two weeks time.

Does you appliance have the custom cool controls ? If it does then there is another air damper in the custom cool unit at the bottom of the fridge compartment