Use this TRICK to Replace a XWFE Filter ($55) with a XWF one ($10) 

The GE refrigerator only remembers 1 RFID tag, so if you buy 2 of the xwfe filters, you can alternate the tags and keep the filter replacement notification while using the cheaper non RFID filters

This video is the GOAT. Watched other videos that didn't teach you how to line it up... Got it first time with this video! Thank you!

Just did this, and it worked!!! Thanks so much!

Great idea. I did use the RFID small circle in an adhesive square on the free bypass plug you can call and get from GE. I heated the sticker up up with hair dryer and removed a little at a time, more heat, remove a little more, etc.. Just like you said. I placed it where you did higher up on the refrigerator filter area . Bypass plug has a much smaller RFID on bypass plug than on the GE filter (just a small circle in an adhesive square, I then pressed it against my carpet and such to make it less sticky on purpose). So refrigerator now says BP on the display with the XWF filter and all works well. Now if you put the GE filter back in while you still have the bypass RFID sticker on, I guess that has a stronger signal, and then you have the refrigerator reading like you used to with the number of days. I just did this as a test. Cool, thank you

The design of this filter should be illegal, and the people who designed it should be in prison.

Or u can call ge and ask for a bypass plug, the will ask for the serial number and send u a free one then take the chip out of the bypass plug, and stick it over he reader. Works forever

You are genius ! Great idea !!

Thank you! The first time Intried to take the sticker off I ripped the RFID and had to buy another over priced filter to get a filter tht worked with an RFID. I saw your video and this time I used the heat gun and it worked! Note to others. Don’t let the sticker get to hot, it will melt and contort. So go very slow

VERY GOOD!!! Mine just turned red and I'm NOT going to pay $50 for something that should be $10. My indicator is inside the top panel so I will never see the red display light from the outside -- only when I open the door. And it's very faint, as it is...

Thanks. It worked! But it was so hard to get that label off!

I got the bypass for mine, taking the rfid from it allows any filter any time.

You are genius thanks for share!!

Yes. I'll probably make a sleeve that fits over the filter that holds the RFID tags. I'm going to also test if i can have 1 sleeve with both tags on opposite sides so I can just move 1 sleeve from filter to filter and rotate the correct tag in position. I don't know what the range of the reader is if 2 tags that close will confuse it. I think the mass of the filter should block the tag that is not facing the back of the fridge.

I didn't have the patience when removing the label, and I ended up destroying the tamper-resistant trace that is embedded in the adhesive; F**k. however after noticing how the electronics are structured it was an easy fix. I used copper tape to rebuild the antenna trace that I destroyed in order to restore the RFID antenna. A little more info about the structure of the label: the round-ish area is the RFID receiver coil, it is formed mostly on a durable layer but has a trace exposed between the 2 round 'pads' that is formed with foil embedded in the adhesive which is typically destroyed when peeling the label (this is the tamper-proof feature I destroyed) The rectangular feature is the 'leak detection' sensor, which is based on sensing capacitance. the RFID chip/die is embedded onto the plastic in the area between the rectangle and the circular area and interfaces with the RFID antenna (circle) and the leak detection sensor (rectangle)

THANK YOU!

Same issue here and it burns me. GE screwing the consumer. This has the same bad taste that Keurig coffee makers gave their loyal customers when they introduced Keurig 2.0 which basically was the same thing as their original coffee pods but they added a chip so you gad to but their 2.0 pods. That went over like a bad dream and they discontinued their 2.0 system. That is the power of the consumer rejecting their money grab scheme. Unfortunately a refrigerator and the stores that sell them are most time ill trained and this filter money grab is not know until after the fact. As if GE doesn't make enough Profit from all its different divisions that they find a need to screw the consumer..

Thank you so much

Worked for me perfectly! Thank you!!

This should be illegal! But… since I paid $400 for a $1500 fridge (at HD on the floor in a box, must have been a special order for a customer that didn’t take it, and it’s SS too!), I’ll put up with their crap! So, peel the label off, stick it to the panel behind where the filter mounts, and twist in the non-RFID replacement. My fridge doesn’t have a reset button, just a “filter status” which is a button. I press and hold that and get “0” displayed, BUT when I selected water, I got air until the filter was filled. Then water was dispensed. So, resetting means nothing to my fridge evidently. The red filter status light comes on when I dispense anything, but I can feel it running through the filter! The fact that I had to get the air out of the replacement filter is telling…. Oh, the manual says to press the “reset” button, which mine doesn’t have, either. Good job GE(Haier). If I have to, I’ll just pull the RFID circuit board and bypass it!

This is great! How long does the hack work for?

Helpful video but I have a newer or older version of filter. Mine had a tamper sticker connecting the ends of the label and when I try to remove the sticker there is also a layer of delicate paper halfway down the label, conveniently splitting the important stuffs in the label in half. Any suggestions are welcome -- I've used a blow dryer but no luck. I do not believe the paper portion will stay stuck to the sticker upon removal, no matter how much heat is used.

I just tried this but it didnt work and I Kept getting the Err code whenever I pressed the water button. The work around for me was, I took the XWFE label and applied it to the new XWF filter and it worked. Fridge is only 6 months old so I'm wondering if the newer models will not read the chip since it's backwards.

Question after you use an XWF filter.... Ok so I will to pull off the wrapper carefully with a hair dryer and perhaps some solvent at the edges an carefully. Some people even said to sort of try to steam it off by putting it in a crock pot and letting steam rise up. **MY QUESTION: Ok so you get the sticker off and put it on an XWF filter. And lets say it works. 1. For how long? 2. And then what do you do when it reaches zero on the filter status? I assume you cannot put that same RFID label on another new XWF since the GE stores it in memory. So perhaps you still have to buy XWFE filters now and then? Thanks for an explanation.

what replacement filter did you buy?

Dang. Can’t seem to get my lines up right. Won’t work for me. Error message won’t clear.

Hey did any of you guys have a recent GE model GSS25GYP GCFS. I'm trying to make sure this trick works on recently sold model GE 25.3 cu fridges. thanks.

I have a 2018 GE, I don’t see a scan code

Mine worked but it only reads 0 filter lol

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GE you should be ashamed of yourself

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