I wish they would fix this. Why do they even include room for an SD card if you have to twist yourself around to USE it? Stupid. I'm sitting here with a 32GB SD card that they are making impossible to use. I am reading the info on Titanium Backup and I think they have a way to use with more automation.
...sigh....
its not really a case of "fixing", its designed that way.. look at the Nexus', they have no expandible memory. google want us to use internal memory for apps and the cloud for media.. unfortunately most data allowance make that impossible.. we should actualy be happy we have an sd slot... the HTC One X doesnt...
..who knows, maybe google will give us free data in the future..
He's right...it's not broken. It's designed to work that way. In the old days, internal storage cards were partitioned into two pieces: the "system" partition for the OS and for installing apps (which was usually a very small amount of space), and a larger "storage" partition for storing files. They were partitioned separately so that you could unmount the internal storage from the phone, mount it to the computer like a hard drive, and transfer files. But people complained that they were running out of room on the phone for apps. It happened to me with my Captivate, and it was very frustrating. Because of this restriction, they allowed moving apps to SD cards...so you no longer had to worry about running out of installation space.
So they started making the phone's storage as ONE partition, for apps and media. This means you have the full amount of space on the phone for installing apps. It also means that we lost the ability to (1) mount the phone like a hard drive (because if you unmount the partition from the phone, then you unmount the system and the phone doesn't work at all), and (2) lost the ability to move apps to the SD card. It's a trade-off. Now, with the full space of the phone memory available to apps, you shouldn't need to move any to the SD card. Of course, if you are in the habit of downloading 2GB games, then yes, you might run out of room. But huge games aside, it really would take an unreasonable number of apps to fill your storage. So they removed the option of moving apps to the SD card, because for 99% of the people out there, it just wasn't necessary any more.
If you have an SD card, and you're still running out of space on the phone's internal storage, it's probably time for you to do a little house cleaning. I have like 300+ apps on my phone and a bunch of space eaten up by podcasts that I haven't gotten around to listening to yet, and I'm only using 6 of the available 12 GB of space. I put all my music and movies on the SD card, and dump my camera roll periodically. You can also set your camera to save to the SD card to save space on the internal storage.
It's a better, more efficient use of the phone's resources, and it's not going to change (aka "get fixed").