[Interest] Android: Underlined text in text edit not showing up in .text property

[Jason H]

I've got a Samsung Alpha (stock) that as I type, the text property is not being updated.
I initialized a TextInput (below, comments in []) and backspaced over it, it gets the updates correctly. But when I start typing, anything not recognized by the keyboard is underlined in the text edit and does not appear until I end that word with a space or punctuation. I am concerned that my users will perform an action thinking that that underlined word is part of what will be acted on, when it will not. 

qrc:/main.qml:308 (onTextChanged): qml: text:  this is a line
qrc:/main.qml:308 (onTextChanged): qml: text:  this is a
qrc:/main.qml:308 (onTextChanged): qml: text:  this is
qrc:/main.qml:308 (onTextChanged): qml: text:  th
qrc:/main.qml:308 (onTextChanged): qml: text:         [showing _gdhdhd_]
qrc:/main.qml:308 (onTextChanged): qml: text:  gdhdhd [appeared completely after space]
qrc:/main.qml:308 (onTextChanged): qml: text:  gdhdhd [showing _hdhd_ in the TextInput]
qrc:/main.qml:308 (onTextChanged): qml: text:  gdhdhd hdhd [appeared completely after space]
qrc:/main.qml:308 (onTextChanged): qml: text:  gdhdhd hdhd [showing _fg_ in the TextInput]

How can I get the entire text?