Well I tried everything you told me to do.
And I thank you for your input.
I made sure the resistor were what you specified. What I found out was other I2C sensors did not play nice with this chip either.
I bought 3 of these, one was broke out of the box and the other 2 chips act similarly. So at this stage all fingers point to this chip. I wish it worked but I need to move to other esp32 that I know work.
Thanks again, I learned a lot.
Honestly, I had high hopes for using the heck out of this.