Unable to get Facebook permissions: birthday_date, about_me always null

Question

I have asked facebook for birthday_date,about_me and location permissions of user and friends, but when I query to get these fields, these are null. I have 150 friends in json all have these fields equal to null, indicating that facebook has not authenticated permisson. Query:

        String query = "select name,about_me,birthday_date, current_location, uid, pic_square,sex from user where uid in (select uid2 from friend where uid1=me()) order by name";
        Bundle params = new Bundle();
        params.putString("method", "fql.query");
        params.putString("query", query);
        response = Utility.mFacebook.request(null, params, "GET");

Json response contains following fields null.

"birthday_date": null,
"current_location": null,
"about_me": null,

I am using following code to login and get permissions from facebook.

    Utility.mFacebook = new Facebook(Constants.MY_APP_ID);
    Utility.mAsyncRunner = new AsyncFacebookRunner(Utility.mFacebook);

    SessionStore.restore(Utility.mFacebook, this);
    SessionEvents.addAuthListener(new SampleAuthListener());
    SessionEvents.addLogoutListener(new SampleLogoutListener());
    String permissions[]=new String[]{"user_about_me","friends_about_me","user_birthday",
            "friends_birthday","user_location","friends_location","offline_access"};
    mLoginButton.init(this, Utility.mFacebook,permissions);

onClick method of button is as follows.

    public void onClick(View arg0) {
        if (mFb.isSessionValid()) {
            SessionEvents.onLogoutBegin();
            AsyncFacebookRunner asyncRunner = new AsyncFacebookRunner(mFb);
            asyncRunner.logout(getContext(), new LogoutRequestListener());
        } else {
            mFb.authorize(mActivity, mPermissions,Facebook.FORCE_DIALOG_AUTH,
                          new LoginDialogListener());
        }
    }

Answer 1

Do you not need to request them using the same name as the permission? Ie it would look like this:

String query = "select name, user_about_me, user_birthday, user_location, uid, pic_square, sex from user where uid in (select uid2 from friend where uid1=me()) order by name";

EDIT Have you tried doing this using a Graph API call? I believe the same information can be obtained via:

https://graph.facebook.com/<fb_id>?fields=birthday,location,bio&access_token=<user_access_token>

If you'd rather not use a graph call have you tried using birthday, location, and bio in an FQL call, perhaps they changed the names of the columns?