Sainsmart LCD2004 newbie question - can't get it working

I GOT IT! It was 0x3F.

It pays to read the datasheet, as people would say.

A common mistake for beginners is their unwillingness or inability to read datasheet and they keep trying to get this thing to work, only in vain. A datasheet is like a map to a maze. The chance of a blind person working out of a maze without a map is practically zero.

BTW, 0x00 is the general call address for i2c devices.