Cordova Android app, file_not_found when trying to upload to remote server

threein99

I am trying to upload a file to a remote server using a Cordova Android application, I can resolve the URL of the file path and it I can print the path of the file so it definitely can find the file and it does exist. But whenever I go to upload the file it keeps failing with an error code of 1 which means the file was not found. The file is located on my sd card and I create it using the app. Here is my code for uploading the file.

function upload()
 {
    

    window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL("file:///storage/emulated/0/testFile5.txt", gotFileAddress, error);
 } 


function error() 
  { 
     alert("no file");
  }



function gotFileAddress(fileEntry) 
  {
   
    fileURL = fileEntry.toURL();
    server =  encodeURI("http://example.server.com/upload");
    alert(fileURL)

    var options = new FileUploadOptions();
    options.fileKey = "file";
    options.fileName = fileURL.substr(fileURL.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
    options.mimeType = "text/plain";

    alert("a"+ options.fileName );

    var ft = new FileTransfer();
    ft.upload(fileURL,server, win, fail, options);

    alert("d");

     function win(r)
        {
        console.log("Code = " + r.responseCode);
        console.log("Response = " + r.response);
        console.log("Sent = " + r.bytesSent);
        }

    function fail (error) 
        {
        alert("An error has occurred: Code = " + error.code);
        alert("upload error source " + error.source +  " \n upload error target " + error.target);
        }
}// end of upload

Has anyone any suggestions ? I have been stuck on this for ages