This has me very curious. I checked out the latest Punk Pink version and made sure Upward didn't have any files in there that would override it, everything seems ok there. I expect changing to system in theme chooser won't make a difference, but still check please.
Could you also check, after running the morph, if the numbers have a slight reflection under them as shown in this pic:
If so, some files installed, and I may have an idea why the background ones didn't. If not, I'm still stumped.
Wish I had an mdpi device to test on.
Tried with system theme active, no change. No reflections under digits, looks like no files moved. Only thing I can think of is a difference in directory hierarchy??
I would say lets wait until somebody else uses the mdpi pink dialer and see if it works for them, to see if the problem lies in the morph or in my gf's phone/rom, or whatever. Plus I would feel bad if I put you through all this and it turned out to be something my fault.
I opened up the .zip and all the .9.png's were there, so it's not even that I got a bad download.
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