If you have the phone set to save pics to your device, your Reserved Picture Memory may be set at 0MB... I'm assuming you'd need to change this to save pics to your phone. If I'm wrong, someone please let me know!
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My guess .... He was saving pictures to the Device Memory and not the card. And as suggested above, the Reserve Memory was set to 0MB or he was over whatever was set.