diff --git a/src/android/FileTransfer.java b/src/android/FileTransfer.java
index e370c5f..eeed2f6 100644
--- a/src/android/FileTransfer.java
+++ b/src/android/FileTransfer.java
@@ -28,10 +28,8 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.net.URLConnection;
-import java.net.URLDecoder;
 import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
 import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -177,12 +175,7 @@ public class FileTransfer extends CordovaPlugin {
             String target = args.getString(1);
 
             if (action.equals("upload")) {
-                try {
-                    source = URLDecoder.decode(source, "UTF-8");
-                    upload(source, target, args, callbackContext);
-                } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
-                    callbackContext.sendPluginResult(new PluginResult(PluginResult.Status.MALFORMED_URL_EXCEPTION, "UTF-8 error."));
-                }
+                upload(source, target, args, callbackContext);
             } else {
                 download(source, target, args, callbackContext);
             }