how do you recover from unconfirmed tx?

[kellrobinson]

I had .6421 btc in a Schildbach wallet, and sent .642 to this other address I own:
1HJZKopzU17Yu1dbbVqvk54FjXBzXFXKYy
The tx is falling back in the queue very far.  
Expected confirmation time on block chain.info has gone from a few minutes to many hours.
Looks like it will never confirm.
How can I get this coin back?
Edit:  this is strange, position in queue suddenly dropped from thousands to a few hundred and est. conf. fell from 20 hrs to 23 minutes.
...and now it's falling behind again. 

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[Andreas Schildbach]

Are you talking about 940e77516d49aeacf26c76d31eec424e6bec239836cda3781ae51141450db66e? It's confirmed now.

Regarding the title question: It should not happen. Bitcoin Wallet only creates transactions that should confirm quickly. If it still does, its a bug. In this case, please send a dump of your wallet. It's Options > Settings > Report issue and tick "Wallet dump".

[Mike Hearn]

The time estimates on blockchain.info are pretty random - don't rely on them to be accurate.

[kellrobinson]

Ok.  Thanks.

[berliston]

I read it a few times and found out that it didn't understand anything