iRobot Not Emptying Bin Automatically ? Fast Easy Fix

iRobot Roomba stopped emptying itself automatically? Simple DIY Fix
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[@alexschindler]

Give this guy a Nobel Prize for preventing me from punting my roomba into the ocean

[@papajoeknows8355]

Hahaha punting it into the ocean… that just belly laughed me. 😂👍🏻

[@dariceb4198]

For the last couple of months I have been manually emptying my bin. I tried all of the suggestions from Roomba. Nothing worked. The app no longer offered the option to empty the bin. I guess my husband was tired of me complaining and surprised me with a new one. We moved the broken one to our basement but I just could not give up on it. Finally I saw your video my husband pulled it all apart and brushed out all the dust, cleaning the sensors. Florence finally empties again. Thank you! Roomba should really add this video to their help list! Now I have an extra clean house with 2 roombas 😂

[@papajoeknows8355]

Poor Florence, thought she was retired… wham, relegated to basement duty. 😂👍🏻

[@kmerena]

I see your Roomba has a name, too. Mine I simply call "Novia" and so does my assistant. I'm disabled and can't do without my novia (girlfriend for you non Spanish speakers) but even after going through the process of what Papa Joe has recommended, it hasn't ended the problem of not automatically emptying, nor of giving me the option of doing so manually. In other words, the app on my smart phone no longer shows that option as it always had before. Back to the drawing board because I can't be without a functioning novia.

[@youtubedavidprice]

My wife, who says I spend too much time on KZbin, said the Roomba wasn't emptying automatically. So I turn to KZbin and this video of yours is the first I came across. Bingo! It now works and now whenever she disturbs my KZbin addiction while I'm in my recliner with my glass of wine I just tell her to remember the Roomba fix on KZbin! I'm now a subscriber.

[@papajoeknows8355]

Hahaha thanks for subscribing, and it sounds like we’ve got her right where we want her lol.

[@Nyx-jw8hp]

I was minutes away from purchasing a $600 replacement for our broken Roomba before I saw this video and watched it. Saved me hundreds. Thank you SO MUCH!

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet. Glad it helped you, and thank you back for the donation! ❤️👍🏻

[@RicardoPerez-js8eh]

I dont write comments on YT videos but this guy solved my 1 year long problem. Mine stopped vacuuming at the base, cleaned everything except the bumper. Took a air duster and solved the issue !! thanks my man! You're the hero of the year for me.

[@papajoeknows8355]

Awesome, glad to hear it helped. 👏🏻

[@tomcraig835]

****** 5 star for this guy, we have been manually emptying Roscos diaper for over a year, tried everything including disassembly of the docking station. took the 15 minutes to take apart the 10 little screws in the front and cleaning it with a vacuum and Q tips. was hopefully optimistic . next cycle Rosco emptied his own diaper and the vacuum sucked up everything as it was supposed to. Our Rhoomba 8 is restored. I am very grateful . words cannot describe how helpful this has been. If you have the same non emptying issues do this, it actually works

[@papajoeknows8355]

Awesome, glad to hear it helped you! 👏🏻

[@tomcraig835]

@@papajoeknows8355 how did you figure this out?

[@papajoeknows8355]

@@tomcraig835 To quote Albert Einstein, “It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.” 😂

[@seanbagby3985]

For YEARS my i8+ hasn't worked with the smart base. Customer support told me I needed to buy a new base for $250. Thank you so, so much for this video!

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet Sean, glad it helped. 👍🏻

[@kmerena]

Thank you for taking the time to post this. You, and people like yourself, are a Godsend to those of us who are technically inept and would never stumble on this on our own. I hope you have a great day.

[@AlexTRex3000]

THIS WORKED! Not only was my bin not emptying, the option for "empty bin" disappeared from my menu. I vacuumed out the gunk and sprayed the rest off with compressed air.

[@papajoeknows8355]

Awesome, glad to hear it! 👏🏻

[@robertlemaire5580]

Same here, the "empty bin" had disappeared as well.. Air was blown into it as mentioned, but it looks good for now.

[@ricardomoran3]

Worked for me too! Thanks so much for posting this.

[@1995MartinD40FMG]

Ok, gonna give it a try

[@carainfrance]

Success. I blew out behind the bumper and around the wheels with compressed air and it seems to have solved the problem without removing any parts. 🎉

[@papajoeknows8355]

That’s actually brilliant, well done! 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻

[@stephanieo8866]

This saved me $150 which is what it would have cost me to have it inspected and fixed or replaced with a refurbished one. I had been having all the same problems with the Roomba not emptying itself. I used compressed air to clean it out. Now it works perfectly! Thank you so much!

[@unorec1983]

This video and your response saved my bacon. We have been fighting with our I robot for 6 months blew it out last night and it's working like new. I had cleaned the sensors called tech support and had no luck. You advise and 4 min of time fixed it. I'm out of the dog house with the wife 🎉

[@thevmaxmanful]

Bad ass my friend. I'm like the rest, was so frustrated I had turned it off. This done the trick and took 10 minutes. Roomba should be ashamed not to put this fix in there books. Thank you again!!!!!!!!

[@papajoeknows8355]

Awesome, glad it helped you. 👏🏻

[@BennieNL]

Worked like a charm, thanks a lot! No more frustration and dirty house 😊

[@paulcarter7114]

Thank you. iRobot support kept telling me to clean the “bin” sensors. Of course that never resolved the problem. Followed your instructions and fixed it within 10 minutes.

[@papajoeknows8355]

Awesome, glad to hear it helped you!👏🏻

[@wtf91109]

Holy cow Best Buy was gonna charge us $500-$600 to fix our issue. We took our Roomba home with “we will just get another one for that price” found your video and it Totally worked!!!

[@SixStringer88]

FANTASTIC VIDEO!!! I had given up on my roomba after trying so many different fixes. Customer care recommended I buy all new parts... what a joke! I saw this video, cleaned it out and now it works like new. Thank you so much for posting this.

[@papajoeknows8355]

Awesome, glad it helped you! 👏🏻

[@johnlookabaugh9783]

This was driving me crazy! Thank you for your video. Cleaned inside the bumper and it now suctions on home base. You’re the man!

[@papajoeknows8355]

Glad it helped. 👍🏻

[@JenGallaway]

Oh my goodness...THANK YOU!!! I have been trying to trouble shoot this for forever!

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet Jen, glad it helped. 👍🏻

[@mesmer01]

Thank you. It worked! I've been trying to fix this issue for months. Today I finally got tired of emptying the bin by hand, so I decided to search KZbin for the answer. Yours was the first I found and it worked. Thank you again.

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet, glad to hear it helped you! 👏🏻

[@ryandurrant6928]

Me too! Thank you sir.

[@karenharshbarger9927]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! This did the trick. Bin now automatically empties and the "empty bin" button has reappeared on my app. You're a genius!

[@papajoeknows8355]

Lol, far from genius, but I’m glad it helped you. 👏🏻

[@tjeerdhoek2549]

Another fix for a cause of this problem I have not yet seen mentioned anywhere: The rubber green entry/exit at the bin bottom (behind the brushes) can very easily by accident get pushed inward e.g. while cleaning or picking up the unit, causing that rubber to no longer make air tight contact with the base. And it’s not visibly ‘wrong’ unless you know how it’s supposed to be. That flap folded inward will cause emptying of the bin by the base to fail, with the same ‘clogged’ message. Even if your unit is totally clean and clear. Use a small screw driver to carefully flip the green rubber outward back in place, so it is is fully visible and on the outside surface. It’ll make good contact with the base and bobs your uncle.

[@papajoeknows8355]

Lol Bob’s your uncle. And thanks for sharing… I probably should do a vid on that as well. 👍🏻

[@ednabisco5364]

Thank you! I too just used an air blower and that totally worked. I needed a little blower anyway for work, and I don't like using this cans of air, so I bought a little rechargeable air blower. It is strong and enough for my needs and blew out lots if dust from the front if the Roomba, and now it self empties again. Thank you so much for your video. I had tried replacing all the accessories and even bought official irobot bin bags thinking that was the issue. I cleaned the sensor to the dust bin, and nothing worked.

[@papajoeknows8355]

Awesome, glad it helped. And I’ll remember the compressed air trick next time. 👍🏻

[@jasondalton6182]

Well I’ll be damned. That fixed it. Crazy!

[@JimsEvilTwin2]

I was skeptical, TBH, but also weary of the manual bin emptying. But this worked! What in the world does cleaning those areas have to do with the auto-emptying?! A thousand thanks, sir!

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet, and yes, it seems bizarre to me as well… I’m guessing the sensors behind there tell the base station that it has arrived, and it’s time to empty the bin.

[@alexschindler]

Behind that bumper there are a series of infrared LEDs that on mine were caked with dust and the windows that they shine through were caked with dust from the inside. My theory is that it looks for a reflection of those LEDs in the base station to trigger it to know that its "home"

[@meyerbj81]

I have no idea why this fixed the issue but after a year or two of the empty bin not working this fixed it!!! Thanks for sitting and wondering what removing those tens screws would do.

[@amycourchesne2689]

This video is brilliant and I’m so thankful I found it. Thank you for doing this! It was truly helpful.

[@papajoeknows8355]

Awesome, glad it helped you! 👏🏻

[@hayleyrowan6670]

Omg, thank you! I was having the same problem (mine is also about three years old) and I was seriously contemplating buying a new one for Prime day. But this worked! Glad I can get some extra use out of it!

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet, glad it helped you. 👍🏻

[@gregoryhorwitz7373]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I was this close to buying a new rumba or something else like it. Your solution took a lot of my frustrations away. Right now it’s going to work in the kitchen. Greg

[@papajoeknows8355]

Awesome, glad to hear it helped! 👏🏻

[@natebunn9664]

I've tried everything recommended online... this got it WORKING again! Thank you!!!

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet. 👍🏻

[@joshuagarza8099]

This worked perfectly! I have been manually emptying my bin for months now and sometimes it would skip the job if I left for the day and forgot to empty it, and that was incredibly annoying. This fixed it immediately and now it’s operating as normal. Thank you!

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet, glad it helped you. 👍🏻

[@karlacalderon71]

It really works!!🎉

[@biokgui]

thank you so much !!!! from France. I almost sent it into orbit without your help

[@papajoeknows8355]

Glad it helped you!

[@tomasvalent3876]

yep, this worked. I tried compressed air only first - that was not enough. I needed to disassemble front as described and clean - that worked

[@loricarr6011]

Thank you! I tried everything I could think of and this did the trick.

[@jovanmilovanovic]

Thank you! I fixed my roomba not emptying bin problem, but I didn't unscrew anything, I just blew the dust in the bumper part as you showed on the video and it worked!

[@papajoeknows8355]

Great idea!

[@nikkilaurent4033]

Thank you! I've been fighting with my robot for months! I gave up its been sitting in the corner forgotten about, just started messing with it again this morning, tried everything again.... Went to KZbin found your video, 10 minutes later it worked! Thank you!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet, glad it helped you! 👏🏻

[@MrGrut666]

Thank you! I’ve been fighting this issue for 6 months. Worked perfectly!

[@papajoeknows8355]

Glad it helped. 👍🏻

[@kusinaadventures]

Thank you so much, I appreciate your technique. Now my roomba start working again I literally lost hope on my roomba because it doesn't empty and do not dock itself.

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet, glad it helped you.

[@ev_re1004]

Thanks for the tip. Brilliant!!!

[@reggiewade14]

Thank you very much my wife is very happy!!

[@papajoeknows8355]

Glad to hear it helped. 👍🏻

[@kevint.2357]

Thank you so much! couldn't figure out what else to do after months having this issue.

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet, glad it helped.

[@Ixyptla]

Finally!! It's been almost 2 years since this robot has worked properly! Thank you for taking the time to make this video🎉🎉

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet, glad it helped you. 👍🏻

[@curt8138]

Just tried this and it works! Thank you!

[@papajoeknows8355]

Hey, glad to hear it. 👍🏻

[@ahmedsharaf8480]

You're awesome! Can't thank you enough 🙏

[@kimtorres2352]

Thank you so much it WORKED!!!!!

[@judithweisenberger]

Halleluja!! It WORKED!!! I am SO happy---Thank you!!

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet. 👍🏻

[@judithweisenberger]

I have an old Roomba that wasn't able to find its way home---so I did the same thing----remove debris and cleaned it well, Put it back together. It is vacuuming now so we will see if it docks itself when it is finished. Thanks again @@papajoeknows8355

[@MyDHudson]

Thank you so much, easy to understand. Worked like a charm!

[@papajoeknows8355]

Awesome, glad to hear it helped you! 👍🏻

[@tigs8118]

Thank you! Had been troubleshooting my dad's unit for a while. Took the front off as you indicated, cleaned with Qtips the IR as well as the front panel slots that they sit in. I suspect what is happening is that whe the unit docks it fires a command to the station to start. The sensor/internal front window wher sensor fires through gets dusty and blocks tj signal.

[@papajoeknows8355]

I believe you’re correct. Glad it helped you. 👍🏻

[@amberbrown9838]

This definitely worked right away! Thank you for the video.

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet, glad it helped. 👍🏻

[@mattfisher1655]

Thank you for your video! Much appreciated!

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet. 👍🏻

[@fegaru]

Thank you very much!!! It work like a charm!!!

[@papajoeknows8355]

You're welcome!

[@JessicaMartinez-rn6it]

Thank you so so much easy as 1 2 3 !💃🏻💃🏻👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet. 👍🏻

[@richardmontana2223]

Thanks for video, very helpful my roomba works now. 👍

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet, glad to hear it helped. 👍🏻

[@pacodiaz6086]

Thanks! This was the perfect fix!!!!

[@papajoeknows8355]

Awesome , glad it worked! 👏🏻

[@marcschlank6301]

These steps worked for me too. Thanks.

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet. 👍🏻

[@vicentemendezg]

Muchas gracias!!!!

[@basoaltojp]

It works!!!!! Thanks!!!! 🤘

[@merloti1977]

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!! You should get paid for that!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet, glad it helped!

[@maggersgonzalez8993]

It worked! Thank you so much

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet. 👍🏻

[@mbrande3154]

You are the MAN!!!! Thanks!!!

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet, glad it helped. 👍🏻

[@snmpvamu]

Works thank you!!

[@papajoeknows8355]

Awesome, glad it helped! 👏🏻

[@marcinpolak4477]

Thank you so much Sir

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet, glad it helped. 👍🏻

[@pertbs]

Work perfect now, thanks

[@papajoeknows8355]

You bet. 👍🏻

[@jaszjsz]

fixed on my J9+. Luckily mine was a sample that I got for free. but holy sh*t they made it even harder to remove the bumper since it attaches with plastic latches that have to be bent and twisted off. Just a cheap cost down to save money.

[@papajoeknows8355]

Glad it worked for you. 👍🏻

[@swenvandenberk8745]

Worked for me too!!!!

[@esmirahesenova7675]

My irobot j7+ has a clean base problem from the day I bought it. The hopper cannot be emptied: engine problem.Could you help?

[@papajoeknows8355]

Probably need to call customer service for that.

[@pedrofuentes307]

Very easy fix!!

[@papajoeknows8355]

Glad it worked for you.

[@ronvalley1973]

Hi Joe, great tips and have you thought of sending this video to the company that makes them? I think I'll remain single if a woman sees how I vacuum. I use a shop vac, and it'll even remove loose paint. You should see the cats run when I vacuum.

[@papajoeknows8355]

Haha, I bet the cats run. And not a bad idea, sending the vid to the manufacturer. But then again, they probably prefer people don’t fix, and just buy new lol.

[@ronvalley1973]

@@papajoeknows8355 Yeah, next year's model cause they build them to last 364 days.

[@papajoeknows8355]

@@ronvalley1973 kind of surprised this was the first problem I’ve had with it.

[@thomascarter8056]

I’ve cleaned the sensors, even manually with a q-tip and it still doesn’t auto empty. Any ideas?

[@papajoeknows8355]

At this point, I would call customer service, 877-855-8693. Maybe there’s something they can do on their end.

[@kmerena]

Papa John, I just posted this. Any other suggestions? "I see your Roomba has a name, too. Mine I simply call "Novia" and so does my assistant. I'm disabled and can't do without my novia (girlfriend for you non Spanish speakers) but even after going through the process of what Papa Joe has recommended, it hasn't ended the problem of not automatically emptying, nor of giving me the option of doing so manually. In other words, the app on my smart phone no longer shows that option as it always had before. Back to the drawing board because I can't be without a functioning novia.

[@kmerena]

This is kind of funny. By Education, I'm a Renal Physiologist. 50 years ago, I coined a phrase that I always attributed to a "a famous Renal Physiologist" without naming myself. I was never famous. The phrase was this: "Very seldom do complex phenomena have monocausal etiologies". In simple language, all it says is most often, complex things have more than one cause. Such was the case with my roomba problem. I won't bore anyone with the problems I had to address to make the roomba work correctly, but I will say that if you hadn't gotten me started and others hadn't contributed to finding the solution, the 3 hours I spent getting here would have been for naught. Now, I'm happy as a lark and my novia (my name for the roomba) is doing well by me. Thank you very much for being who you are.

[@funinthesun3414]

This worked for me. I just blew it out with a compressor .

[@papajoeknows8355]

Great idea!

[@tommynanthavongsa415]

my dirt disposal doesn't work at all why.

[@papajoeknows8355]

Did you try what is shown in the video?

[@msmartiA58]

I owe you at least $500, because I was going to buy a new one. I did this, and it worked! However, now it empties THREE times all in succession. Would you know why this is happening? Each time it empties, it's three times.

[@papajoeknows8355]

Check to make sure there’s not a clog somewhere. Also check / change filter. Also check the little green flap underneath, sometimes it can get tucked in a bit and cause that.

[@msmartiA58]

@@papajoeknows8355 I’ll try. Believe me, I checked and cleaned EVERYTHING before happening upon your vid. I HAVEN’T changed the filter lately, I’ll try that.

[@darelord]

Mine is not that luck. Spent all night sweping all the place inside bumper but nothing happen. The empty bin button is still no-show. The clean base keeps replying not able to empty the bin. About to send for repair but dont know which should be sent, the robot or the clean base 😂😂😂

[@papajoeknows8355]

lol. Hey also I’ve had a couple of people mention that it can be that green rubber flap on the underside of the robot sometimes gets pushed in and stuck there, and that may cause it as well.

[@darelord]

@@papajoeknows8355 It seems that I found the solution. After had robot run to fulfill the bin until it show full bin alert, I took off the bin and clean it. Also clean the place in the back of rubber brush (there's sensor-like golden circle there, clear it carefully), and the dust sensor at the right/left of suction hose (the mouth attach the brush to the bin). Then, I put back the bin and send robot back to clean base. And BOOMS! The base start sucking dust from robot again. It seems the dust sensor (the one control the "Empty bin" button) and the bin sensor are seperate. When the bin was full, the bin sensor worked, also activated the dust sensor too :))

[@user-rn8fk7mu9x]

I bought the new one which means there’s no dust but but it still doesn’t automatically emptying the bin 😢 can you help me out? Plzzzz

[@papajoeknows8355]

I’m not sure, but I don’t think it will empty until the onboard dust bin is full.

[@user-rn8fk7mu9x]

@@papajoeknows8355 actually i have old one as well, i bought the new one bc of the problem but the new has the same problem.. i try to contact the customer service but they never reply..

[@user-rn8fk7mu9x]

It keep saying clean base problem..

[@papajoeknows8355]

@@user-rn8fk7mu9x I would call their customer support, they’re usually very helpful… 877-855-8593

[@user-rn8fk7mu9x]

@@papajoeknows8355 I am out of US.. i live in Korea.. so i can’t call 🥲

[@mybeautdee]

Unfortunately, this didn't work for me. :-(

[@papajoeknows8355]

That sucks