so leave or put apps/games on the Phone part (the 12 or so gigs) rather than on the media (2gigs) part?
The phone's storage is split into two parts, all of which are on the internal, non-accessable, SD memory. We are not talking about your microSD chip, which the phone does not come with anyway, you have to buy and add that if you want one.
There is a lot of internal storage memory, 16 gigs total, and the 12 gigs of that are called the media part. The 2 gigs or less are called the phone part, though its really all part of the sme memory, its like partitioning a hard drive into two partitions. Apps install into the little "Phone" partition, but usually MOST of the stuff that makes up the app can be moved to the "Media" partition, leaving more room on the "Phone " partition for more app "stubs".
Some apps require the whole of the app to be stored on the "Phone" partition, for what the app-maker figured to be performance issues. This is misguided, on our Droid3's, because there is really no difference in access speed between the two partitions on the internal sorta-SD memory, I think. Who knows, though, about the speed and access times of some generic SD chip you slid into the slot under the battery door...devs tend to protect themselves.
I use an app that was recently an Amazon Free App of the Day, App2SD Pro by Sam Lu I think. Whenever I install something, it will Notify me if that app can have a chunk of itself moved to "SD" memory, in our case with the Droid3 that's the phone's built-in Media Area. I recommend that, because it reminds me every time that it is possible to do that move. For example, today I got Drag Racing Premium version 1.1.2 from the Amazon FreeApps thing, and I was able to move a big chunk of it from the "Phone" to the internal "media area" and that reduced the application footprint in the "Phone" partition from 7.20 MB down to 664KB. Pretty good idea and instantly reversible if there are issues. It pops up in Notifications when it sees a new app is being installed ! Maybe you would want to check it out,though it is NOT really necessary because you can do all this by hand if you know how.
There is a free version that still does all that monitoring and moving stuff, via Android internals, its just that the Pro version was free last week and I figured I'd get the whole thing.
Glenn