STM32 I2C HAL FXOS8700 communication problem

Question

I have a STM32F103RE MCU that is connected to a fxos8700cq sensor through I2C2 port. I've set up the peripherals using stm32cubemx and I'm trying to simply test the communication with the sensor. But as I debug the code, it seems that data transfer is not happening correctly.

These are the i2c settings:

 hi2c2.Instance = I2C2;
  hi2c2.Init.ClockSpeed = 100000;
  hi2c2.Init.DutyCycle = I2C_DUTYCYCLE_2;
  hi2c2.Init.OwnAddress1 = 0;
  hi2c2.Init.AddressingMode = I2C_ADDRESSINGMODE_7BIT;
  hi2c2.Init.DualAddressMode = I2C_DUALADDRESS_DISABLE;
  hi2c2.Init.OwnAddress2 = 0;
  hi2c2.Init.GeneralCallMode = I2C_GENERALCALL_DISABLE;
  hi2c2.Init.NoStretchMode = I2C_NOSTRETCH_DISABLE;

and here is the main code:

 uint8_t send_buffer[1];
    uint8_t receive_buffer[1];
    uint8_t FXOS_ADDR = (FXOS8700_DEVICE_ADDR_SA_11 << 1);
    
    send_buffer[0] = FXOS8700_WHO_AM_I;
    receive_buffer[0] = 0;
    // chip select for fxos
    HAL_GPIO_WritePin(GPIOC, GPIO_PIN_2, GPIO_PIN_SET);
    HAL_Delay(500);
    HAL_GPIO_WritePin(GPIOC, GPIO_PIN_2, GPIO_PIN_RESET);
    HAL_Delay(500);
    
    ret = HAL_I2C_Master_Transmit(&hi2c2, FXOS_ADDR, send_buffer, 1, 100);
    //ret = HAL_I2C_Master_Transmit_IT(&hi2c2, FXOS_ADDR, send_buffer, 1);
    HAL_Delay(2);
    ret = HAL_I2C_Master_Receive(&hi2c2, FXOS_ADDR, receive_buffer, 1, 100);
    //ret = HAL_I2C_Master_Receive_IT(&hi2c2, FXOS_ADDR, receive_buffer, 1);
    
    if (receive_buffer[0] == FXOS8700_WHO_AM_I_PROD_VALUE)
        HAL_GPIO_WritePin(GPIOA, GPIO_PIN_8, GPIO_PIN_SET);
     else
         HAL_GPIO_WritePin(GPIOA, GPIO_PIN_10, GPIO_PIN_SET);

but after I debug the code, and watch the i2c registers after executing the HAL_I2C_Master_Transmit(&hi2c2, FXOS_ADDR, send_buffer, 1, 100); function I get these values. That means the TXE bit in SR1 register is not set.

I also tried using the interrupt mode but that's not working either. the values of i2c registers after the ret = HAL_I2C_Master_Transmit_IT(&hi2c2, FXOS_ADDR, send_buffer, 1); line are like this.

In all cases the functions return HAL_OK and there is no error.

I've tested the sensor and the board communication using mbed and it works fine. So the hardware has no problem.