diff --git a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java
index 91faf4802..0f883245f 100644
--- a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java
+++ b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java
@@ -910,6 +910,7 @@ public class LatinIME extends InputMethodService implements KeyboardActionListen
                 false /* shouldFinishComposition */)) {
             // We try resetting the caches up to 5 times before giving up.
             mHandler.postResetCaches(isDifferentTextField, 5 /* remainingTries */);
+            // mLastSelection{Start,End} are reset later in this method, don't need to do it here
             canReachInputConnection = false;
         } else {
             if (isDifferentTextField) {
@@ -989,10 +990,16 @@ public class LatinIME extends InputMethodService implements KeyboardActionListen
             if (textLength > mLastSelectionStart
                     || (textLength < Constants.EDITOR_CONTENTS_CACHE_SIZE
                             && mLastSelectionStart < Constants.EDITOR_CONTENTS_CACHE_SIZE)) {
+                // It should not be possible to have only one of those variables be
+                // NOT_A_CURSOR_POSITION, so if they are equal, either the selection is zero-sized
+                // (simple cursor, no selection) or there is no cursor/we don't know its pos
+                final boolean wasEqual = mLastSelectionStart == mLastSelectionEnd;
                 mLastSelectionStart = textLength;
                 // We can't figure out the value of mLastSelectionEnd :(
-                // But at least if it's smaller than mLastSelectionStart something is wrong
-                if (mLastSelectionStart > mLastSelectionEnd) {
+                // But at least if it's smaller than mLastSelectionStart something is wrong,
+                // and if they used to be equal we also don't want to make it look like there is a
+                // selection.
+                if (wasEqual || mLastSelectionStart > mLastSelectionEnd) {
                     mLastSelectionEnd = mLastSelectionStart;
                 }
             }
diff --git a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/RichInputConnection.java b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/RichInputConnection.java
index c212f9c81..673d1b4c2 100644
--- a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/RichInputConnection.java
+++ b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/RichInputConnection.java
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ public final class RichInputConnection {
      * cursor may end up after all the keyboard-triggered updates have passed. We keep this to
      * compare it to the actual cursor position to guess whether the move was caused by a
      * keyboard command or not.
-     * It's not really the cursor position: the cursor may not be there yet, and it's also expected 
+     * It's not really the cursor position: the cursor may not be there yet, and it's also expected
      * there be cases where it never actually comes to be there.
      */
     private int mExpectedCursorPosition = INVALID_CURSOR_POSITION; // in chars, not code points
@@ -292,7 +292,11 @@ public final class RichInputConnection {
                 mCommittedTextBeforeComposingText.length() + mComposingText.length();
         // If we have enough characters to satisfy the request, or if we have all characters in
         // the text field, then we can return the cached version right away.
-        if (cachedLength >= n || cachedLength >= mExpectedCursorPosition) {
+        // However, if we don't have an expected cursor position, then we should always
+        // go fetch the cache again (as it happens, INVALID_CURSOR_POSITION < 0, so we need to
+        // test for this explicitly)
+        if (INVALID_CURSOR_POSITION != mExpectedCursorPosition
+                && (cachedLength >= n || cachedLength >= mExpectedCursorPosition)) {
             final StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder(mCommittedTextBeforeComposingText);
             // We call #toString() here to create a temporary object.
             // In some situations, this method is called on a worker thread, and it's possible