Merge pull request #95 from JMR-dev/docs/readme-restart-claim

Say which conversions come back, rather than that they all do
2026-08-25 09:02:23 -05:00
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@@ -113,7 +113,14 @@ container × codec matrix — including combinations that cannot work, which it
 offers alternatives for rather than hiding.

 Conversions run as durable background work, so they survive leaving the app and are
-restored after a restart.
+restored when you reopen it.
+
+One case is not restored, and it is worth knowing about. If Android refuses to let a job
+restart in the background, it is retried on an exponential backoff for about eight and a
+half hours and then given up on — and a job that has been given up on does not come back
+when you reopen the app. Reopening the app is what grants permission to run, so a
+conversion that has stalled this way is best started again from the app rather than waited
+on.

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