Environment

Version: AngularJS v1.3.0-build.2602+sha.b10a437
Browser: Chrome (OS-X) 34.0.1847.116

Issue description

When using the 'blur' event the value is not saved to the model. Other events and 'default' works fine.

I'd like to use this feature in a ng-grid cell with a custom $parser. After my user enters some text into the cell I want to do one validation run before saving to the model.

I'm new to angular but investigated this a little. Maybe my investigation below helps a little narrowing the issue down.

Maybe it has something to do with event handling order since ng-grid also registers a blur handler.

Investigation

From my understanding ctrl.$setViewValue(value, event) should be called but isn't because of the $apply is a noop. (Line: 17246)

Unfortunately I don't understand the internals of angular enough to understand why $apply is a noop in my case.

if (ctrl.$viewValue !== value ||
        // If the value is still empty/falsy, and there is no `required` error, run validators
        // again. This enables HTML5 constraint validation errors to affect Angular validation
        // even when the first character entered causes an error.
        (validity && value === '' && !validity.valueMissing)) {
      if (scope.$$phase) {
        ctrl.$setViewValue(value, event);   //   <---- Neither this
      } else {
        scope.$apply(function() {
          ctrl.$setViewValue(value, event); //    <---- or this gets called
        });
      }

Plunker

http://plnkr.co/edit/IybN8jtCAdm03sCC2lxg?p=preview
Does this help?